I sew leather pretty often on my Singer heavy duty machine, so the timing goes out of wack constantly. Usually I'm able to fix the timing of the needle to the hook, but this time the needle doesn't seem to go low enough to catch the thread so I attempted to try adjusting it myself, but there are no marking to set the height and there is nothing about it in the manual. I have tried setting the needle up and down, but the closest I got was when I try to sew the stitches are fine on top of the fabric, but on the bottom there's a thread looping mess.
Please help!
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I would contact Singer directly above
It seems the leather is too thick for this needle on this machine!
This machine is designed for leather, so I am surprised you are having issues.
There are a number of troubleshooting videos on YouTube, maybe one will help
www.youtube.com/
Has the machine been serviced recently? Perhaps it just needs a good professional service/cleaning.
Post back what you learn!
Since you have been having 'small' problems before, I believe you could use some help from people who really know sewing machines.
I know from past experience that Singer will not help with this kind of problem; if they cannot direct you to a 'service bulletin/video they will give you the address of a service agent near you.
Here is a web site that is all about helping people with sewing machine problems - especially Singers - and they appear to love helping - even simple things so please contact them and ask your question.
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As was mentioned in the previous post, it is very strange that this model for leather has such a problem. Yes, its better to write to the Singer support but I think they can answer we cant solve this problem or something like this.
I just had the same issue as you did and in trying to diagnose the issue found this question you posted. Since I found a solution I figured I'd come back and let you know. If you go to the following page, it's page 16 of the machine's service manual, it shows how to pretty easily, adjust the height of the needle bar. Screw driver and allen keys, and something tiny you can measure 28.5mm with are essentially all that's needed. www.manualslib.com/
Hope that helps. Worked for me.
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