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Lana Olsen Posted on Aug 13, 2012
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Message remove thread jam under the stitch plate keeps appearing! It's clean!

I have cleaned it, changed the needle, rethreaded it, turned off for a long period and on and the message won't go away.

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After cleaning out the bobbin area, re-threading the top thread, turning my Pfaff 4.2 off and on it still said " remove thread jam under the the stitch plate". I pushed the "ok" button and it started working again.
Keeping my fingers crossed.

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    Gerda Silvius Dec 02, 2013

    It is now 1 week later and I have not had any more problems.

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    Gerda Silvius Jan 22, 2015

    Today January 22, 2015. Had a couple more messages about a thread jam. The trick of pushing the ok button works every time.t is still working fine.

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Pfaff expression 4.0 after cleaning out the thread jam, click the OK or chekmark button on the front of the machine. per the reference in the manual

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    i cleaned out the thread jam - did not have to clike OK as it had not come on - but thread continues to jam also will not cut thread when scissors icon pressed. Not happy with this machine - second time to the repair shop in three months

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  • Posted on Aug 31, 2008

SOURCE: stitches not even

the needle bar on my sewing machine is loose not sure how to adjust will not go through the fabric to grab the bobbin thread
please help

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  • Posted on Oct 28, 2008

SOURCE: hobbylock 794

You have a timing problem which needs a technician to repair. to do this properly, you need some special gauges which, generally , are not found just anywhere. Take it a technician and get an estimate before you leave it.
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  • Posted on Jun 30, 2009

SOURCE: Pfaff 2048

The timing has been knocked off when it jammed. The only way to
correct this is to take it to a shop and have it retimed. This is common on these machines.
I have 25 years working on Pfaffs

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  • Posted on Nov 07, 2009

SOURCE: pfaff 786 cannot get the second needle to form a stitch

Sorry to say I had the same prob and finally gave up on using 2 needles and 4 threads. Other than that I love the machine but will be replacing it soon due to inability to find replacement parts as it is sooo old. :(

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