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[figment]

Auuugh!!

I just bought myself a new serger. Hooray! (I bought it in person today because the one I ordered on line was cancelled. Blah.)

But!! I am working on setting the ratzenfratzen thing up, and I had forgotten what a gigantic pain those things are to thread. No matter what I do I seem to keep on messing up the fourth thread/lower looper thread. It looks to me like I've done it right, but no, it doesn't work.

This is when I really, really miss living in the same area as my friends who sew. I could really use a sympathetic ear, and another pair of eyes to look at it and see where I'm going wrong.

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[lthomas987.livejournal.com]

My experience is that there is an order in which things should be threaded. Frequently it's lower looper then upper looper otherwise it will keep breaking the upper looper thread. Also.. thread with the presser foot up so the tension disks are open.

On some models the threading diagram is numbered to indicate the order. Also be sure the thread is hooked on the back side of the lower looper arm if it's got a hole there.

[birdfigment.livejournal.com]

Thankee. I think that sequence is very important, and so far this morning I have had more luck. Strangely it seems that the lower looper thread wants to break at the cone/spool - I serged very slowly and was able to see it break and tie it back together to keep going - I'm not sure if there is something wrong with that particular cone of thread, or if I just need to serge slowly and be careful. But it does seem to be going better now.