My machine Juki DDL8700 The Hand wheel is to hard to turn by hand I know it is something to do with the back lever connected to the stich length I am doing some thing wrong

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By any chance did you break a needle? Sometimes it either bends the needle plate or a small piece of the needle gets caught between the feed dog and the plate. When that happens, it is jammed and the hand wheel doesn't turn freely.



Unscrew the two screws that hold your needle plate and take it off. Inspect it to see if plate is bent up, down or side ways. If it is out of shape, either try to lay it flat on a table and tap it back into the right shape or buy a new plate. When you have the plate off the machine, try to turn your hand wheel. If it turns freely, you can put your plate back on and sew away.



The other possibility is that you have something caught in the

'race' which is the piece that 'races' around your bobbin case when your machine is running. At times a piece of lint, thread or broken needle can become wedged into the race. You can put a couple drops of oil on the part that moves around your bobbin case and see if that helps. I would take my needle out of my machine while I was doing all this testing just to simplify the testing.



Good Luck! My last post disappeared into the ether so if you get two from me, please ignore one!

By any chance did you break a needle? Sometimes it either bends the needle plate or a small piece of the needle gets caught between the feed dog and the plate. When that happens, it is jammed and the hand wheel doesn't turn freely.

Unscrew the two screws that hold your needle plate and take it off. Inspect it to see if plate is bent up, down or side ways. If it is out of shape, either try to lay it flat on a table and tap it back into the right shape or buy a new plate. When you have the plate off the machine, try to turn your hand wheel. If it turns freely, you can put your plate back on and sew away.

The other possibility is that you have something caught in the
'race' which is the piece that 'races' around your bobbin case when your machine is running. At times a piece of lint, thread or broken needle can become wedged into the race. You can put a couple drops of oil on the part that moves around your bobbin case and see if that helps. I would take my needle out of my machine while I was doing all this testing just to simplify the testing.

Good Luck!

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