When the sewing machine is properly timed, all the parts work together in a seamless flow of coordination. The needle moves from it highest point down toward the needle plate. The feed dogs reach the farthest point toward the back of the sewing machine. The feed dogs drop under the needle plate. This is just before the needle point reaches the needle plate. The needle continues to move down dragging the upper thread under the needle plate. It proceeds toward its lowest point.
The needle begins its rise back up. A loop of thread forms along the back of the needle. A special cut out on the back of the needle to accommodate this loop is called the scarf. The sewing machine hook slides behind the needle. The point of the hook slides into the thread loop and pulls the thread around the bobbin. The bobbin thread and upper thread wrap together. The needle and hook proceed through their actions under the needle plate. The feed dogs move under the needle plate from back to front.
The needle proceeds to rise again up out of the bobbin area exiting the needle plate. At the same time the feed dogs rise up out from under the needle plate. They begin to move from front to back as the needle continues to rise.
The thread from the bobbin flows through a bobbin tensioner providing resistance to the thread as it is drawn up by the upper thread knot. The upper thread is also under tension. This comes from the upper tension, thread guides, tension spring, and sewing machine take up lever.
The thread from top and bobbin grow increasingly tighter until they form a locked stitch in the middle of the fabric. This process is repeated for every stitch.
How do you adjust sewing machine timing?
The needle, hook, and feed dogs must move in harmony. If they fail to do so, the machine will not perform as expected. When the hook is just slightly out of time with the needle, you will notice skipped stitches. This may begin on only one side of the zig zag stitch or intermittently. If the timing is just a bit more out of sync, stitch formation will become impossible.
If the feed dog timing is out of sync, the fabric will not move through the machine as expected. Threads may bunch up or the fabric may just not move.
As you can see, timing is everything.
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Check whether your sewing machine has feed dogs that can be lowered.Look on your machine to see if there is a lever for the feed dogs. If your machine does not have this feature then lower the feed dogs using the lever on your particular machine, and free-hand at will. Or you can set the feed length at zero, and lighten the presser foot pressure.
If your machine does not have feed dogs that can be lowered, check to see if it came with a feed cover plate, which will allow you to free-hand the material.
However you can remove the needle plate with a screwdriver and remove the feed dogs from the machine. This may need to be done by the experts having proper knowledge and skills.
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Yes it does have a switch that lowers the feed dogs, and when you are finnished with what ever you were doing, and change the lever back, the feed dogs do but only after you start to sew again, and they snap back, in about half a turn of the hand wheel. I guess when I give my original problem I didn't explain deeply enough, now the feed dogs don't seem to rise up enough, and don't seem to move in as large a stroke when stitch length is set at its longest. When I look at the bottom or top, except for that shaft with the oblong riser, with the spring against he bobbin rotor, everything seems to be OK. Can't really see where I went wrong. There is another adjustment for feed timing, but that would require removing the entire bottom of this machine to get at. If you've seem the CE-250, you'll know what I mean. And the shaft for the feed dogs does not turn, but goes back and forth, like a washing machine agitator. Hope that makes sence to you, some say I get rather confusing. Bit I'm thinking if I got that so messed up, I'll be timing the top of the machine next to stay in tune with all of the machine.
Thanks for your help, and the referral to the sewing repair web education site. I didn't seem to get the email for registering, there was some kind of error, so will have to try after 11:30 am tomorrow. In the mean time, I've given up, and sent the machine to a repair shop here in Medicine Hat. I'll have to learn how to fix this on my own at a later time I guess.
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