Hoping someone (Miller in TN?) ?can help me find the "sweet spot" for loading the
bobbin case on an older #8 Wheeler & Wilson -- does NOT have the 8
embossed?on it and the bobbin winder is on the stand. ?
This bobbin case does not match the picture?of the bobbin case set up in my?
copy of the Carter Bays encyclopedia. ?The pictures there show a spring?
on the bobbin case and this one was clearly NOT made with a spring as there
are no screw holes for it to have attached. There is a second case in the drawer.
I have it correctly threaded (it kept jumping out of the tensioner). It has the
correct needle #29 from the Boye case (I only had one), the bobbin was wound
by hand.?
It WILL PICK UP THE THREAD, but it only makes two stitches before?
it breaks and when I look down into the bobbin race area the top thread has
wound itself around the bobbin race several times.
Yes, I did run the fabric without it threaded up so I could adjust the stitch
length with the lever underneath.?
I've been working on and off on this machine two years for a customer?
and this is the last step before returning it to them for the family estate.
Any guidance would be much appreciated. A copy of the threading and
the bobbin race would be even better so I could send a copy of it with
the machine.
Thank you for your time, Allison
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Allison C. Bayer, Vintage Sewing Machine Collector
Allison C. Bayer