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Bobbin Case Hitting Something Inside Machine?

With the bobbin case out, my machine runs. With the bobbin case in, something hits it and knocks it out and knocks the timing out.

By Donald D

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November 15, 20140 found this helpful

I had a machine that only used plastic bobbins; metal ones would throw off the timing. Maybe this is your problem.

 

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November 15, 20140 found this helpful

Have you checked online to see if there are any helpful hints or Q&A sections on the brand's webpage? That might be helpful. Check in your owners manual and see if you have the bobbin wound properly. I agree with the previous poster, that perhaps the type of bobbin you are using will not work in this machine.

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You should also check inside your machine and see if there is some thread or something caught in the mechanism. If your machine used to work, and now doesn't, perhaps something is caught somewhere. Also, check out the bobbin case and see if it is good condition. Perhaps it has had some little piece broken off.

 

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November 15, 20140 found this helpful

You can't fix this at home. I do vintage (and some modern) sewing machine repair for my sewing students and this is not a job I would take on because I'm not a factory trained repair tech.

Re-timing a sewing machine is not an easy job and requires a rather expensive service manual (I paid close to $300USD for my Singer manual, used, and it only covered machines up to the early 70s; I bought it 15 years ago, and have since moved to the UK) plus some specialty tools that only a professional will have (not a self taught like I am - I have some tools but not the ones for the timing since moving to the UK).

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As another poster has mentioned, using the wrong type (and size class) of bobbin is a sure fire way to throw the timing out on a machine. For example, some 'modern' machines use a magnetic timing system - use a metal bobbin in those and the timing goes.

But there are so many other ways to throw the timing on a sewing machine that only a professional will be able to tell you how it happened so that it never happens again.

Please, take your machine to a pro. You'll be glad you did. And while it's there, have it serviced - be sure to ask the cost of the repair AND the servicing, not all repair techs will do a servicing at the same time they do a repair.

 
November 17, 20140 found this helpful

Sometimes it is just something simple. Once, when cleaning out the bobbin area, I put it back together just a little bit wrong. When I took it back apart and reassembled it, the bobbin stayed in.

 

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