What a day, I am having!! I wanted to sew a simple serger project. I was changing the needle and dropped the tiny screw that holds in the needle into the machine. I worked for hours trying to find that screw. I cleaned it out and tried using a magnet. No screw! Then I turned this heavy machine upside down and heard it rattling. So I shook it and cleaned it all out again! No Screw! Then I tried shaking it again and there was no more rattle. I knew I was in trouble now! I had to practically completely unassemble this machine. I took pictures so you can see my mess and maybe what the inside of a serger looks like.
First are my pieces and parts and hopefully, I will know how to replace everything and get all the screws back into the right places.
Now here is my bare looking machine!
After all of this, I still could not find the screw. So I picked it up and gave it a good shake again, and finally look what fell out!
There is the little trouble maker!! Now probably most women would have to take their machine to a dealer and have them find it, but I am one of those women that love to take things apart!! So now I am going to go have some lunch and put this machine back together. While I have it opened up, I will give it a thorough cleaning and oil some of these parts in the back of the machine. After about 6 hours of working on this machine, I should be able to do my little serger project.
I just thought I would give everyone the benefit of my mistake, make sure you are paying close attention when you are changing needles and I think from now on, I am going to lay a cloth over my serger before I ever change another needle!!! I have read that advice from other sewers, but we always think it won't happen to us! I was afraid if I left that screw in there it might jam up my machine and that would be very costly!! Has this ever happened to anyone else??
6 comments:
Yes, the same thing happened to me. I'm not as brave as you so, after shaking and turning the serger upside down a few times, I gave up and bought a new screw from my dealer. So far, so good and the screw has not caused any damage. I learned my lesson too, and put a piece of fabric under the needles when I change them.
Glad I am not the only one who has done this! Thank you for writing!
I have lost my screw, but didn't realize I lost it and now it's too late. I have no idea where it is, and I found that my sewing maching store charges $100 for this little tiny screw! Good thing it wasn't the right needle screw - they charge $199 for that!!!
If you lose it try sewingpartsonline.com it's only $3.95 for that screw.
I think that it is the right time to buy a new machine because you have been already taking lot of work from this machine. The working performance of this machine has been going down.
This machine runs like a champ. I would never trade it or replace it as long as it serges
as good as it does.
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