SINGER W2031 User Manual

CONTENTS

Description of Machine...........................................................................

. To Wind the Bobbin.......................................................................... ^

2. Inserting new Needle.............................................................................

. To Thread the Bobbin Case....................................................................

. To Insert and Remove the Bobbin Case..................................................0

. To Clean the Snap-Out Race..................................................................

6. To Thread the Machine & Needle...........................................................

. To Prepare for Sewing

8. To Commence Sewing................................................................... 0

. To Remove the Work

. To Regulate the Thread Tension............................................................^

. To Regulate the Stitch Length...............................................................

. To Regulate the Pressure of the Presser Foot

. To Use the Drop Feed Dial.....................................................................

. To Oil Sewing Machine................................................................................

. Some Useful Sewing Hints...........................................................................

. Correction for minor Difficulties.............................................................

. How to Use the Zigzag Regulators.........................................................q

. How to Change the Presser Foot............................................................

. To Make Buttonhole............................................................................... ^

. To Sew Buttons...................................................................................... ^

. To Make Hem......................................................................................... ^

. How to do Felling............................................................... ^

. To Sew Braid and Raised Applique Stitches

. To do Quilting........................................................................................ ^

. Cloth Guide & Thumb Screw..................................................................

. Hemming with the Zigzag Stitch

Needle and Thread S ize

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Balance wheel

Bobbin winder

Stitch regulating lever

Stitch length look

Bobbin winder thread

tension bracket

Drop feed dial

Needle clamp

Presser foot

Hinged plate

10.

Presser foot thumb .screw

II.

Thread cutter

Thread tension regulator

DESCRIPTION OF MACHINE

13. Slack thread regulator

14. Face plate thread guide

15. Patch-o-matic darner (Pressure regulator)

16. Thread take-up lever

17. Arm thread guide

18. Spool Pins

19. Zigzag regulating lever

20. Indicator for stopping lever No. 19

21. Lock screw for indicator No.20

22. Face plate

(Dial tension)

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1 To Wind the Bobbin

1. To wind the bobbin the balance wheel must te disconnected from the stitching mechanism. Hold the balance wheel with your left hand and turn the stop

motion knob (Fig. II toward you with your right hand. This will permit the balance wheel to turn treely while the needle bttr remains motionless. The balance wheel is now disconnected for the bobbin winding operation.

2. Place a spool of thread on the spool pin (Fig. 2), Draw thread from the spool over guide then down-ward across machine from left to right.

3. Pass the thread through the tension device at the right corner of the base of the machine.

4. Now wind the end of the thread around an empty bobbin seven or eight times and place the threaded bobbin on the spindle of the bobbin winder.

5. By pressing on bobbin winder lever, the small rubber wheel is brought in con tact with the balance wheel. To lock into position, press bobbin winder lever

until a click is heard.

Now .set the machin in motion, and when the bobbin is completely full it will

stop turning automatically. Slip tobbin from spindle. Hold balance wheel

irmly with your left hand and with the rigth hand turn stop motion knot

away from you until it can not be moved any further and the needle bar

moves with the turning of the balance wheel.

2. Inserting New Needle

1. Turn the balance wheel toward 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 far as it will go, with its flat surface to the right,

then retighten the clamp screw (Fig. 3).,

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3. To Thread the Bobbin Case

1. Hold the bobbin case with your left hand and put the bobbin into the bobbin case with your right, leaving about two inches of the thread end unwound (Fig.

4). As the bobbin is being inserted in the bobbin case, thread flow 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. 5).

3. Then pull it through under the tension spring of the bobbin case (Fig. 5) until it enters the delivery eye (Fig. 6).

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Fig. 2

Fig. 4

Fig. 5

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Fig. 6

4. To Insert and Remove the Bobbin Case

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

2. Raise the needle bar to its highest position by turning the balance wheel toward you.

3. Spring up hingal plate CFig- 2),^

4. After threading the

bobbin case, hold its

latch between the thumb and forefinger of left hand, with its position finger opposite the notch at the top of the shuttle race, replace it on the center

stud of the shuttle ( Fig. 8).

5. Then release the hitch and press the bobbin case in until the latch catches the groove ncttr the end of the stud waih a click that can be heard.

6. Allow the end of the thread to hang free about 2 to 3 inches.

7. Snap back hinged plate. To remove the bobbin case do ailahe above in revers. order.

Fig. 8

3. After shuttle-race and shuttle have been cleaned, put all of them back in reverse order.

4. Snap lever into place as seen in Fig. 9.

Fig, 9

5. To Clean the Snap-Out Race

When the thread is tangled in the race or dust gets into the space between the

shuttle-race, follow this procedure.

1. Raise the needle bar to its highest position and take bobbin ctise cut.

2. Release the l.EVER (A) on both sides of shuttle race by turning them down ward. Then take .out the front ring and the shuttle body wuh your fmgers

(Fig. 9. 10). ^

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Fig. 30

6. To Thread the Machine & Needle

1. Turn the balance wheel toward you to raise the needle bar to its highest position.

2. Place a spool of thread on the spool pin.

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