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Never had this problem, put spool on arm to thred bobbin, but it just hums..like its spinning but bobbin isnt moving.and of oourse it is made in China..for christ sake.
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To wind a bobbin on the 3130, first raise the presser foot and bring the needle to the highest point in its travel cycle. Next hold the outside of the hand wheel with one hand. While holding the outside of the hand wheel, turn the knob inside the hand wheel towards yourself (counter-clockwise if you face the right side of the sewing machine). Make sure that the spool of thread is on the spool pin with the spool's thread retaining notch to the right. Put the appropriate spool holder on the spool pin. Snap the thread into the thread guide in to the left of the spool holder. Lift the top cover to expose the bobbin winding mechanism. Snap the thread into the bobbin winder tension disc by wrapping it around the front of the disc and then bringing it back towards the bobbin winding spindle. The bobbin winder tension disc is to the left of the top cover. Put the thread through the hole in the bobbin from the center of the bobbin. Keep the hole up and put the bobbin on the spindle. Push the spindle to the right. Hold the thread above the bobbin and start the machine. After a few rotations, you can let go and cut this part of thread. Restart the sewing machine and let it finish winding the bobbin. Once the bobbin is full, move the spindle to the left and remove the bobbin from the spindle. Cut the spool thread to release the bobbin to put it in the bobbin case. Hold the hand wheel and turn the inner knob away from yourself.
Slow down the speed. Bobbins should not be wound at a high speed because it will sometimes cause the bobbin or thread spool to rise (and even jump off the machine!). Also the thread tends to be stretched when wound onto the bobbin. Then when sewing, the thread relaxes and may cause the fabric to pucker.
Put bobbin in holder. Thread properly. Pull out arm on bobbin which holds spool in place and gives u a handle. Place into position. Turn slightly so it fits into appropriate slot. Let go of arm. That's it. Good luck.
don't forget to load the spool under the foot plate with cotton as well and make sure its loose thred it up and try to watch if it picks it up from under the foot and pull it out so you have one cotton from the bobbin and one coming out from under the foot through a small hole and try again
let me know if you still have problems with it the timeing might be out a bit as well
Replacing the bobbin case after changing the thread spool gets you back to sewing. The Singer Simple model is designed for the beginning sewer. Even with its simplistic design, often getting started takes a bit of time, concentration and practice. Without the bobbin casing properly in place, the machine will not sew. You can get the machine up and running again.
The little spool holds the thread inside the bobbin casing. The little spool holds the thread inside the bobbin casing.
Turn off the power to the machine. Power is not needed for any part of the process. Turn the machine off and unplug for safety reasons.
Turn the hand crank on the machine to move the needle into the highest position. Move the presser foot the up position.
Open the hinged latch covering the front of the bobbin cover. This is the device that holds the spool in place.
Place the threaded spool inside the inner casing. Place in so the thread is running in a clockwise direction.
Slide the thread through the slot opening on the let bottom of the casing. The slot is next to the outer arm of the casing. Close the hinged latch.
Hold the casing so the outer arm is sticking straight up. The thread will be coming out to the left of the arm; lay it under the arm to the right.
Push the casing into the internal bobbin slot on the machine. It will lightly snap into place.
1. Remove the bobbin case
2. Release the clutch by pulling out the handwheel
3. Draw the thread from the spool andguide the thread throught the hole in the bobbin from the inside to the outside
4. Put the bobbin on the bobbin spindle
5. Push the bobbin to the right
6. Hold the free end of the thread and depress the foot control, wind until full
7. Push the handwheel in (to wngage the clutch)
8. Push the bobbin spindle back tot he left to resume sewing mode.
9. Place the bobbin in the bobbin case (thread should feed clockwise)
10. Draw the thread through the slot in the bobbin case
11. Continue to draw the thread under the tension spring and through the opening Pull out about 4"' of thread
12. Holding the latch open position the bobbin case into the shuttle and release the latch
13. Case should lock into place when released
The machine is relatively simple to thread. This is what I do and I've had no threading problems.
1. Put thread spool on the spool pin and put spool guard over spool pin to hold spool onto pin.
2. Take thread and put it under the bent tab by the circle tensioner. bring the thread around the right side of the circle tensioner and bring around the front of the circle tensioner thing back to the top hook on the far left side of the machine.
3. Take the thread around the backside of the top hook think until it threads through the flat piece on the left side of it.
4. Bring the thread down through the first (right side) channel and under the plastic piece to the second (left side) channel.
5. Bring the thread up the second channel and around the moving thread holder and past it's flat metal piece to hold it.
6. Tuck the thread around the small wire thread holder below the needle screw. This may take a few passes to catch it.
7. Thread the needle from the front and run the thread between the teeth of the presser foot.
8. Put a bobbin in the bobbin case so that the thread pulls off the bobbin from the left side of the bobbin if you look at it from above.
9. There is a small channel in the bobbin case that is covered by the bobbin tension flat piece. Pull the bobbin thread through this channel and into the empty space where the needle thread will catch.
10. Place the bobbin case into the machine with the little set bobbin arm pointed to the sky so that it fits into the machine without wiggling to the right or the left.
11. Turn the, uhhh brain fart, the hand wheel until the needle comes back up with the bobbin thread hooked over the needle thread. Take a narrow thing, like scissors or a seam ripper and pull both threads until the bobbin thread comes up.
Now your machine is threaded. Use these directions with the pictures in the book to get this machine threaded.
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