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Welp.
Replaced both needles on the serger with brand-new ones, in case that was the problem. One of them looked pretty dull, it was certainly time.
Still won’t make a proper stitch, so I unthreaded the whole machine and started again, from scratch, following the diagrams. Redid it three times when the first two turns of the hand-crank made thread slip out of places it was supposed to be. Half an hour of tinkering, and I can tell, the thing’s threaded exactly as it’s supposed to be, down to the last detail.
When I press the pedal, I get three threads together in a kind of stitch, and Needle B’s thread just goes through and stays loose. Won’t join the others.
Rethreaded both needles, double-checked the upper and lower loopers. All is arranged correctly. There’s no reason, by the way, for so much of the looper assemblies to be unreachable except by tweezers; the door you open could certainly go over farther and give you better access, but it just doesn’t, so you can’t really see those assemblies and have to thread them with tweezers and luck. But I am one thousand percent certain they’re threaded correctly; you can tell because the thread goes in and comes out at the right spots, and I followed the directions for which part has to cross over the other part, and such.
But it doesn’t work. The fucking thing doesn’t work. Needle B’s thread won’t join the stitch, the whole thing just spits out tangles that unravel if you pull them straight.
Ughhhhhhhhhhh.
oh, and now our wifi is cutting out so I couldn’t post this post, and lost it (and with Tumblr, if you lose Internet while composing a post, it doesn’t matter if the Internet comes back, your post will never post, you have to delete it and start fresh, and you can copy-paste the text but not the tags) so here are my stupid tags, which I fucking screenshotted because fuck everything.
In short: Fuck everything.
Welp.
Replaced both needles on the serger with brand-new ones, in case that was the problem. One of them looked pretty dull, it was certainly time.
Still won’t make a proper stitch, so I unthreaded the whole machine and started again, from scratch, following the diagrams. Redid it three times when the first two turns of the hand-crank made thread slip out of places it was supposed to be. Half an hour of tinkering, and I can tell, the thing’s threaded exactly as it’s supposed to be, down to the last detail.
When I press the pedal, I get three threads together in a kind of stitch, and Needle B’s thread just goes through and stays loose. Won’t join the others.
Rethreaded both needles, double-checked the upper and lower loopers. All is arranged correctly. There’s no reason, by the way, for so much of the looper assemblies to be unreachable except by tweezers; the door you open could certainly go over farther and give you better access, but it just doesn’t, so you can’t really see those assemblies and have to thread them with tweezers and luck. But I am one thousand percent certain they’re threaded correctly; you can tell because the thread goes in and comes out at the right spots, and I followed the directions for which part has to cross over the other part, and such.
But it doesn’t work. The fucking thing doesn’t work. Needle B’s thread won’t join the stitch, the whole thing just spits out tangles that unravel if you pull them straight.
Ughhhhhhhhhhh.
oh, and now our wifi is cutting out so I couldn’t post this post, and lost it (and with Tumblr, if you lose Internet while composing a post, it doesn’t matter if the Internet comes back, your post will never post, you have to delete it and start fresh, and you can copy-paste the text but not the tags) so here are my stupid tags, which I fucking screenshotted because fuck everything.
In short: Fuck everything.
