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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 64022, member: 360"]Unfortunately that isn't gonna work. There's next to no places like that around here. And the only sewing place I know within a reasonable distance only handles modern machines. Something like this museum-piece is way outside of their territory. I doubt they'd even know how to load the shuttle if I wasn't there to tell them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I *know* the machine is threaded correctly. Every diagram, video and set of photographs tells me so. But the moment I do anything to adjust the tension up top, it either snaps entirely or it bunches up. The closest I've ever gotten to 'proper tension' is right on the bottom, and just-past right on the top. If after all my tinkering I couldn't get it, I doubt anyone else can - there's hardly six moving parts on this thing to screw up![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 64022, member: 360"]Unfortunately that isn't gonna work. There's next to no places like that around here. And the only sewing place I know within a reasonable distance only handles modern machines. Something like this museum-piece is way outside of their territory. I doubt they'd even know how to load the shuttle if I wasn't there to tell them. I *know* the machine is threaded correctly. Every diagram, video and set of photographs tells me so. But the moment I do anything to adjust the tension up top, it either snaps entirely or it bunches up. The closest I've ever gotten to 'proper tension' is right on the bottom, and just-past right on the top. If after all my tinkering I couldn't get it, I doubt anyone else can - there's hardly six moving parts on this thing to screw up![/QUOTE]
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