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Question posted by vickymsew on January 12th, 2015
How To Set Timing
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Answer #1: Posted by Brainerd on January 18th, 2015 12:32 AM
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Hi, please download and refer to the owners manual here:
http://www.helpowl.com/manuals/Pfaff/18/184605
http://www.helpowl.com/manuals/Pfaff/18/184605
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Owner's Manual - Page 2
... Sewing
Setting the Needle Position
Regulating Removing
the Stitch the Needle
Width Plate
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13 14
Changing the Sewing Foot .
Trouble Shooting
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true. Dropping the Fundamentals
Machine...
Owner's Manual - Page 3
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Essential Parts of Machine
1 Take-up lever
2 Thread guide
...machine) 13 Reverse feed control 14 Stitch length control 15 Drop feed control
16 Bedplate 17 Needle picite 18 Sewing foot 19 Shuttle 20 Bed slide 21 Sewing... foot thumb, screw 22 Needle bar 23 Thread guides 24 Presser bar lifter
(on back of machine...
Owner's Manual - Page 4
...from the Needle and Thread Chart on it over from you. Disengage the sewing mechanism and
place a spool of the machine, set screw on the bobbin winder tension bracket on the back of thread on ... pins (Fig. 3). Disengaging the Sewing Mechanism
Hold the balance wheel with your right hand, turn
the stop when the
desired amount of the thread several times around
bobbin 3 in Fig. 2)....
Owner's Manual - Page 5
...the bobbin. B
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Changing the Needle Turn the balance wheel toward the right and tight en needle set screw B and take out the old needle. [nsert the new needle C into the bobbin case,... 5. Pull the thread into the bobbin case slot (Fig. 6) and draw it will go. est point. Loosen needle set screw B. Lift latch D (Fig. 8) to its highest point. Place the bobbin case on page 23. B
Fig. ...
Owner's Manual - Page 6
... moves down through the needle eye.
Fig. 11
Light ly pull the needle thread to right and pull about four inches long) bock under the sewing foot. 2
_i- thread on one of
c\
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4
- Thread needle 11 from right to left to draw the bobbin thread up lever reaches its highest position. Upper...
Owner's Manual - Page 7
... tension too tight. Both tensions balonced correctly. II -
To increase the tension, turn this screw clockwise, and to ward
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Upper Tension
For ordinary sewing, the upper tension should be set between 4 ond 6 on the tension dial (Fig. 13). III
Fig. 13
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Regulating the Thread Tensions If the tensions ore not bolanced cor...
Owner's Manual - Page 8
... lever C to the left ;
= center; .c = right. When the machine is set on the left of button A. Regulating the Stitch Width
Set stitch width ever C (Fig. 17) to the desired stitch width (0 to... the dot on "0", the ma chine ceases feeding; When the control is particularly useful for sewing buttonholes.
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Stitch Width Limiting Button
The stitch width can be fore you...
Owner's Manual - Page 9
... (Fig. 18).
Loosen the sewing foot thumb screw and remove the sewing foot. Place both threads back under the head of the rear screw before you have fabric under the sewing Foot. Machine feed dropped partway for sewing delicate fabrics. 2 Machine feed raised for embroidering, darning and button sewing. Never run a threaded machine un less you be set to their...
Owner's Manual - Page 10
... in Fig. 22.
Lower the presser bar lifter and set the stitch width lever on "0". Slowly sew about 32 ) V so that the stop motion knob is set on any number other than "0".
Zigzag Sewing The machine sews zigzag stitches when stitch width lever C is tightened securely. Straight Sewing The machine sews straight stitches when stitch width lever C (Fig. 17...
Owner's Manual - Page 11
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lever against the stop at point B, and sew the bartacks with a sean ripper. Set the machine for the bartocks. To sew narrower buttonholes on light weight fabrics, such as...18
Sewing Buttonholes with tailor's chalk. Mark the position and length of the buttonhole on page 13.
Leave the needle in the fabric on "41/2". Open the buttonhole cautiously with the stitch width lever set...
Owner's Manual - Page 12
...edge of the material about two inches. Lower the hemmer foot, and sew the
hem with close stitches. This setting will the
material. Hemmng
Fig. 27
Raise the needle and attach ...the darning hoops with the normal sewing foot by operating the reverse feed control.
Fig. 26
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Embroidering and Darning
Remove the sewing foot and drop the
machine feed. Place the material into
darning...
Owner's Manual - Page 13
... a
blindstitched hem. Removing the Work
Raise both the stitch length
and stitch width controls on "3" and
sew the hem, as illustrated in Fig.29B,ond
baste, Fold the hem down so bottom edge protrudes about... position lever to start the next seam.
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Set both the needle and presser bars to the desired
width of the machine.
Cut the threads with the thread cutter, leovin ends...
Owner's Manual - Page 14
... 30). Clean shuttle race G with latches D.
25 After oiling, run the machine for this purpose. Machine Care
Oiling All bearings of moving parts at the needle bar end and under the bedplate of the... of its race (be oiled occa sionally. From time to work the oil into the shuttle race. Use only a high-grade sewing machine oil for about a minute to time, remove the bobbin case and put a drop of...
Owner's Manual - Page 15
... socket, turn it . Something is not threaded correctly.
2. Replace the damaged part.
27 The thread used is damaged. The needle plate, the shuttle or the
sewing foot is too heavy for the needle.
5. Loosen it out. Push the bulb up into the bayonet socket slots. Insert it correctly. Thread tension tao...
Owner's Manual - Page 16
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adjusted. The thread tenson is not attached properly. 3. The bobbin thread has slipped out from under the tension spring.
Looping of the bobbin case. The machine skips stitches
Cause: 1. The needle breaks
Cause 1. The material is either blunt or bent. 3. Draw it with a high-quality needle. The needle is pulled by...
Owner's Manual - Page 17
... the thread are
of thread have
accumulated in accord.
4.
The bobbin is not wound properly.
3. The machine lacks oil. 2. Clean and oil the machine thoroughly, using a high-quality sewing machine oil. Thread the needle or wind the bobbin correctly. The needle thread is set too high.
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Remedy:
Adjust both tensions, as instructed. Lower the...
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