SINGER W1044 User Manual

1. CONTENTS

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:ription of machine............................................................................................ ..........................................................................

ding the bobbin........................................................................................................... ................................................................. ^

Jading the bobbin case.................................................................... ................................................................................................g

rting and removing the bobbin case...........................................................................'

Jading the machine......................................................................................................................................................................... y

ing the needle.................................................................................................................................................................................. -j

laring to sew................................................................................................................^

ting to sew........................................................................................................................................................................................ g

ulating the thread tension............................................................................................................................................................... g

ulating the stitch length................................................................................................................................................................. i‘o

ulating the drop feed...............................................................................................^ ^

ulating width of zigzag stitch...........................................................................................'

ulating length of zigzag stitch........................................................................................................................................................11

of zigzag patterns......................................................................................................................................................................... ^2

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ining the shuttle race............................................................................................... .......................................................................

li to make buttonholes......................................................................................................................................................... 15^16

ling embroidering and monogramming................................................................................

ton sewing.......................................................................................... .............................................................................................

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2. DESCRIPTION OF MACHINE

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1.Balance Wheel

2,Stitch Length Control Knob

3. Reverse Push Button

4. Drop Feed Knob

5. Dial Tension

6. Needle Clamp

7. Needle Plate

8.Slide Plate

9,Presser Foot
lO.Presser Foot Clamp Screw
11 .Needle Bar Thread Guide

12. Lower Thread Guide

13. Florizontal Thread Guide

14. Face Plate

15. Light Switch (Rear side)

le.Thread Guide

17.Tension Backet

iS.Top Plate

19.Spool Pin

20.Zig-Zag Width Lever
21 .Bobbin Winder

22.Bobbin Winder Stopper

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3. WINDING THE BOBBIN

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^ balance wheel is now disconnected for the bobbin windinVoper'aLn"

' front (Fr2).”^ bracket from back to

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4. And push the bobbin winder from left to right

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with left hand and with the right hand turn t spmdle. Hold balance wheel firmly

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4. THREADING THE BOBBIN CASE

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Before threading the bobbin case, study Fig. 3, 4 and 5 to get a general idea
as to how it is done.

1. Hold the bobbin case with your left hand and put the bobbin into the
bobbin case with your right hand, leaving about two inches of the thread
end unwound (Fig. 3). As the bobbin is being inserted in the bobbin case,
the thread flow, you will note, is clockwise.

2. While holding the bobbin case as before, grasp the thread end with your
right hand and guide it into the cross slot (Fig.4).

3. Then pull it through under the tension spring of the bobbin case until it
enters the delivery eye (Fig. 5).

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5. INSERTING AND REMOVING THE BOBBIN CASE

1. Raise the presser bar by lifting the presser bar lifter

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4. After threading the bobbin case hold its latnh /P- 7, u
position finger opposite the notch at the top of the sh forefinger of the left hand, with its

iFig 7). shuttle race and replace it on the centre stud of the shuttle

5. Then release the latch and press the hnhhin ^ u i

6. Allow the end at the thread to hang free S'"''' ™«' »•e end of the atud
S. Puth hath Slide Plate, To re™.e the hohhln ease do al, the aho.e In reverse order.

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6. THREADING THE MACHINE

Place a spool of thread on spool pin and raise the take-up
lever to its highest point Refer toiFig. 8).

Pull thread through slot of upper thread guide (1) down
through tension discus(2)up into thread check spring (3) and

(4) and on up into the eye of the take-up lever (5) from right
to left.

Return thread through middle thread (6) down through lower

guide (7) and into needle bar thread guide (8).
Thread needle from left to right, pulling about four inches

of thread through needle.

7. SETTING THE NEEDLE

1. Turn the balance wheel towards you, raising needle bar
to its highest position, and loosen the needle clamp screw.

2. Hold the needle in the left hand with the point down
and insert the needle up into the needle clamp as for

as it will go with its flat surface to the right then retight

en the clamp screw {Fig. 9).