Serger (Overlocker) Threading - Part 3 - A Common Problem.
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- If you've ever torn your hair out because you can't get your serger / overlocker to sew again after a thread has broken, then this video may be your savior.
If the lower looper thread breaks or the thread runs out then it's not just a matter of re-threading the lower looper and carrying on. Not unless you follow these simple tips where I show in detail what causes the issue and how to avoid it.
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I have watched around 15 videos trying to problem solve this exact lower thread issue! thank you for showing and explaining this! you're the first I've found to talk about this issue
Glad it helped!
Such awsome videos! I've had my serger since I was 8 and my mom was a seamstress. In now in my 40s. I started sewing again and forgot how to fix this problem. Thank you! 😊
OMG thank you! I was close to throwing my OL in the bin! All working now fingers crossed thanks to your great tutorial
Best explanation ever. Now I know that unthreading the needles is a must--I can't just pull the threads back!
Best overlocker video in the history of overlocker videos! Thank you!!!
Thank you! Thank you so much for sharing this! I was on the verge of taking my overlocker to get serviced and re-threaded, when I stumbled onto this video. Your explanation was so clear, that I managed to get my overlocker going😊. You truly are a God send. Bless you! 🙏🙏🙏.
You just saved my machine from a sure death!!!! thank you thank you
Thank you so much! I’m a newbie serger user and I was getting so frustrated. This was so helpful and informative.
THANK YOU!!! I was at my wit's end. I'd taken my serger to the shop to get properly threaded three times and didn't expect the fourth time would be a charm. Decided to see if I could find anything on the internet and this came up. I fixed the threading, it's working great, and I can't tell you how grateful I am.
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much for this video, after two days of struggling with my overlocker, I came across your page and I now have a much greater understanding of the workings of my machine and now it’s working great 🙏👏👏
What a help to know how the stitch is made. I own a Babylock Evolution, which has a quite different thread path, but the stitch making concept is the same. I am grateful for your video!
Thanks.
I've wasted many hours rethreading the wrong way and breaking and breaking and breaking that lower looper thread. Thanks for this explanation! I taped a note to myself onto my serger so the correct order of threading will always be right there in front of me.
I typed the same and taped to my serger.
Thank you so much! I was ready to toss my serger out the window. Now I know why it wasnt sewing right.
Best video of showing that other end of the lower looper where the thread has to catch before it goes into the groove and then through the eye
I found out purely by accident that when you are watching UA-cam videos on a smart phone or tablet you can actually zoom in. I did not know this option was available
You are a life saver!!! I was in tears! I re-threaded my vintage Juki about 8 times and finally had to go for a walk.... then I found your channel and I am so grateful for your help! THANK YOU so so much! I took my thread out of the needle just to be sure and voila' your guidance worked like a charm!
I have been struggling to adjust the timing on an old Pfaff Hobbylock 794 serger, even with the less than ideal service manual I found online. Your video was extremely helpful to see where the loopers meet the needles and also the correct position of the loopers in relation to each other. Just wish the upper looper adjustment screw wasn't on the inside bottom, that was a bear to adjust while holding up this all metal machine! Got it looking perfect, and this overlocker is good to go for many more years! My first timing adjustment on a serger (hobby repair gal).
OMGosh thank you so much for the close up and the video. Now it all makes sense.
My local Goodwill came close to getting a perfectly good serger today. Thank you for the excellent tutorial describing exactly what I was doing wrong. I have a different machine but the principle is the same.
Great job!
Thanks sooo much sir u have just helped me solve d problem I have been battling for 2 days❤❤
Thank you! Searched and searched for a resolution to my thread breaking on my machine and this is the best explanation by far!
Thank you. I had this exact problem today. I got it working but didnt know what I had done right.
THANK YOU! I was loosing my mine trying to fix my looper.
Thank you so much, I am new to overlooking and this has been a great tip for me. I now have a clear understanding of the why and life will be a lot less frustrating next time it happens. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Best video out there on the mystery of sergers. Fantastic. Thank you. I am in the finishing staged of an Elna Star cam gear job. Without your dedication to sharing knowledge I would be pondering the mysteries forever and never getting it fixed. I copied the link to this video to post on FBook groups where people are two min short of ending it all over their overlocker. Hope you don't mind. Thanks for all you do kind Sir.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks! I am new to sergers and bought a 25 year old simplicity expert serger which I believe was made by babylock. I have been watching videos all day to learn how to thread it, and then realized the thread is already jammed at the needle plate. Not wanting to make matters worse I found your video and your precise camera angles, thorough explanation has given me confidence to give it another try. I am off to watch your other serger videos, hoping one looks more like mine.
You sir, are a life saver. Thank you
Thank you, you solved the issue I was having with my overlocker!
Thankyou for a clear video explaining the workings. I have been given a overlocker and have rethreaded it several times trying to solve a looping problem. I now understand the process, so I am able to trace the problem to the right hand needle tension, here's hopeing problem solved
Bless you for showing close ups of how the parts should look when threaded correctly. Your explanation and video are so helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
I can’t thank you enough for this video! I’ve just been having this exact issue on my new serger and I couldn’t figure out what was going on.
I learned WHY my looper thread was breaking. And I learned how the loopers interact with the needles. I also I got some tips to prevent my looper thread from breaking. This will help me set up my serger correctly each time. Outstanding explanation. Excellent close up camera work. Good pace of your explanation. Thank you. I have a great resource now.
Glad it was helpful.
@@InStitches thank you so much I got it thank you so much
You are the best! Thank you for explaining my circumstances perfectly and helping me resolve the problem forever!❤️
Happy to help!
The best trouble shooting for the bottom looper issues...doesn't matter what serger you have.
thank you. i am struggling to get a chain at all, so i will use your vid to help me.
This is real helpful I just bought my serger ,I was about to return it to the vendor thinking something was wrong but all my problems are in this video and I got my solution as well thank you for the wonderful video
I'm please it was helpful. Thanks.
Great explanation. Eye opening! Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
This was the missing piece of the puzzle. I had replaced the upper looper on my 30 year old Singer serger and couldn't get the timing right until I understood what was supposed to be happening underneath, which was made clear with your video. It is running great now. Thank you!
Thanks. I'm please it was helpful.
Thank you so much for your tips I really appreciate it ❤
Thank you! this was so frustrating!
Thanks a lot. May the god Lord enlarge your territories.
WHat a NIGHTMARE> So at least you showed how its suppose to work i think thats the most important is i wish you shoed everything up close working closly and clearer cuz im slow. but on my machine the arms and 3rd and 4th can be adjsuted with alan keey i had to re adjust both arms but on the 4th arm i had to adjust the angle the hight and the depth and now it works very well. thats why it was messing up and breaking needles. im just glad i ound this video. my dad asked me if i checked the bobbin -_- so definatly does not know how these sergers work. most sewers dont know how ot do machines. and this video i dont think it mentioned it but at least not to my memory but tinkering around and seeing how it works or should work i was able to deduce the arm was problem and it was off in 3 ways. not to mention making sure hte tension is right on all 4 which now machine works better tehn when i bought it.
so thankyou
Thank you so much you saved me from going insane
I'm pleased my video helped.
Thanks so much this was so helpful!! 😊
Best of threading and what goes on "down there"! Good focus of cam, nice sound/voice. Prima! Struggeled with my moms hobbylock 788, now all plastic covers off :)) Clean and oiled, I just found out whats wrong!!
Super helpful! Thank you for uploading this.
Glad it was helpful!
Omg!! ...super helpful. Thank you thank you thank you!!
Its funny. I only yesterday replaced the loopers drive gear in my White 534 [mechanically much like the machine shown here]. I had to totally remove a shaft (no easy task) which of course caused all loopers timing to be lost. The service manual was little help, so I had to reestablish the two loopers timing by trial and error. I “got ‘er done”, after about three hours for the complete job. Your macro photography is what I was seeing through my 5X stereo vizor.
Yes that is quite a job so well done. It's handy to take note of the timings before you start the job but you probably realise that now.
Brilliant!
Thank You!! So clear now:) !!
Glad it helped!
Thank you
You're welcome
Thank you thank you and endless thank yousssssss😅😅😅
Excelent video. Thank you very much. İ will try to do my machine in home.
Best of luck!
Very useful and clear instructions. I've just bought a Pfaff hobbylock 2.0 and have trouble threading the lower looper (yellow). I can't see where the groove of the lower looper is as it is hidden and I don't really know if I've threaded it correctly. Also, have had problems with the stitching jamming. I've nearly given up with this overlocker. I've just oiled it and changed the needles, let's hope that does some good. I look forward to hearing your comments.
Thank you for this video, very clear visual and now i understand more how the serger works.
I wonder if you can help with an issue. I took the foot and plate off to clean bit now the feed dogs seem to be really low and also the thread is bunching up on the plate. I have re-threaded several times and the looper chain forms but i have to pull it from the plate.
🙏🏽🥺thank you
Cheers.
Oh blesssss youuuuu!!!
This seemingly simple problem is entirely the reason why people give up on their sergers!
Thank you for this video. I've had this problem many times and eventually it got fixed but I never knew what the problem was. I now have another problem. When I changed the cotton from black to white I noticed that the left needle stitching was separate from the loops, and the material between the stitching and the loops was a little bit raised. I tried a few things to fix it but now the left needle isn't stitching at all. If I only wanted three threads it would be fine, but how can I get the left need to sew and be connected to the loops? I've tried changing the needle but that made no difference. Thank you.
Thanks. It's hard to say but check the needles are right up into their holes completely. Also check the top looper tension is not too tight. Check threading. Make sure the threads are going fully between the tension disks.
Have you any experience of the Europeaan Kohler Eurolock B-400 (3 thread) and B-800 (4 thread)
machines? I have a lovely Juki BL3-416 which is super and am getting the Kohler Eurolock Kohler B-400 soon. thanks
I have a Janome 3 thread O V L have moved the knife about 1 ml to the right can I move it a little more? I’m just trying to get a nice stitch not roll hemming.
Hi wonder if you can help my older singer overlocker after threaded sews a good chain stich but as soon as I put fabric in it won't stich and stops the chain stitches any idea why? Thanks
Having problems with my upper looper somehow straying off on my brother 1034dx. Any suggestions would be much appreciated
I just got this serger and I threaded everything properly and it won’t even thread! The needle only moves when I turn the hand wheel, it doesn’t move but it makes a noise when I press the presser foot. Any idea of why this happens ?
Hi
I was hoping someone could help and give me some hints on how to fix this thread issue with the 14U454B overlocker.
Everytime i try to start chaining the thread the lower no:2 thread keeps tangling in the silver plate i've tried rethreading everything and it keeps happening.
As i don't have funds to take it to a specialist i would like to see if i can fix it myself.
My overlocker is not forming a chain it’s bunching up over the plate what do you think my problem is
Thank you for your video. I have a babylock serger BL80 and I couldn’t find any manual for this. I notice that the feed dogs won’t feed the fabric. If I put the fabric underneath the presser foot, when the serger runs, the threads got jammed up. I saw that the feed dogs never moved when the machine ran. Is that normal or the feed dogs broken? Or maybe because of the timing? Please help me!!! Thank you sir!
It sounds like the feed dog mechanism may be seized up. Make sure the stitch length is set to near full for testing. Remove needle plate and clean the feed dog area. Thanks and good luck.
@@InStitches thank you
have any ideas how to fix it when the left thread catches in the bottom of the chain but not the top? It looks like a 3 thread/1 needle serge on the top, with a line of straight stitch as well. On the bottom looks normal. I'm so confused.
Hi, depending on the model, what you are seeing may be by design. Some four thread machines don't cover on top to the left needle. It's called mock safety stitch. Thanks.
Thank you so much,but I have s question for u..my machine is a kenmore..I did all u said but the needle thread is still breaking ,and also the upper looper thread..
Is it that it could be thread is not good??.. my head aches with this and I am unable to finish my work.. what else can I do.
Plz help
It sounds like the machine may have a fault.
@@InStitches ok.thk u so much..
I got it looked at and now its sewing ok. The thread breaks at times and I just loosen the tension..
Thx for ur input again
My problem is with the top two it keeps breaking. How can I stop that I’m ready to pull al my hair out I hope you see this
Make sure you are using the correct needles and make sure threading and tensions are correct.
Dude send me your address, I wanna come there and kiss you honestly!!! I was loosing my mind but you really helped me hey! Best video ever ❤
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