SINGER W231 User Manual
CONTENTS
1. Description of Machine
2. Sewiight
3. Installing Head into Cabinet
4. Threading the Machine & Needle
5. Threading the Bobbin Case ................................................. 5
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6. Inserting and Removing the Bobbin Case ......................’T” 6
7. Cleaning the Shuttle Race
8. Preparing for Sewing
9. Starting Sewing
10. Setting the Needle
11. Pushbutt jn Drop Feed (Feed Dog Position Regulator)
12. Regulating the Thread Tension
13. Pushbutton Darner (Presser Foot Pressure Reguiator) .,.’rr 11
14. Winding the Bobbin................................................................................
15. Regulating the Stitch Length for Forward Sewing.
16. Regulating the Stitch Length for Reverse Sewing
I!- Regulating the Stitch Length for Zig-Zag Sewing
18. Regulating Width of Zig-Zag Stitch
19. Regulating Length of Zig-Zag Stitch
20. Inserting the Disc
21-22. Sewing Design
¿0, Oiling...................
24. Button Sewing
25. Making Buttonholes..
26. Darning, Embroidering & Monogramming................. , 2I
27. Narrow Hemmer
28. Sewing Braids............................................................................................ oa
29. Felling........................................
30. Cloth Guide................................................................................................. 24
31. Quilting.......................................................................................................... 24
32. Causes of Common Difficulties
33. Needle & Thread Size
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1-2 Pushbutton darner
3 Thread take up lever
4 Upper arm thread guide
5 Arm cover
6 Automatic stitch cam puli lid
7 Zigzag width indicator
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8 Spool pin
9 Zigzag width dial
10-11 Zigzag width stoppers
12 Bobbin winder release lever
13 Bobbin winder shaft
14 Bobbin winder push plate
15 Bobbin winder rubber wheel
16 Balance wheel (hand wheel)
17 Pushbutton stitch reverse
18 Stitch length indicator
19 Stitch length dial
20 Vertical arm
21 Sewlight switch knob
22 Bobbin winder thread guide
23-24 Pushbutton drop feed
25 Bed-plate
26 Vertical arm ,
27 Needle clamp screw
28 Needle clamp
29 Needle
30 Needle plate
31 Feed dog
32 Slide plate
33 Hinged presser foot
34 Presser foot thumb screw
35 Presser bar
36-37 Face plate thread guides
38 Thread retainer bar
39 Calibrated thread tension dial
40 Thread take-up spring
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I'he lamp housing is located at the front side
of the arm under the arm cover (Fig. 2).
The light switch knob is located at the riglit
side of the vertical arm. To switch on the
light turn the light-switch knob clockwise or
counter-clockwise. To switch off the light
turn the light-switch knob clockwise or
counter-clockwise. In order to replace a
burnt out bulb with a new one, loosen the
two screws on the top of the arm-cover and
remove the cover. Bulbs (15w) may be
obtained at dealers, department stores and
electricals stores.
Sewlight Switch knob
Fig. 2
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1. Loosen the two hinge screws under the holes in the rear
edge of the machine bed. (Fig. 3)
2. Raise hinge pins in the cabinet cutout. Slip machine head
on to the pins and tighten hinge screws securely.
3. Lower machine head to front cabinet flap.
*JU^eadiHf the Maokine. & 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.
3. Lead the thread through the arm thread-guide Fig. 4).
4. Draw the thread down through the thread-guide to the
tension discs from right to left and up.
5. Draw the thread up through the check spring.
6. Draw the thread under the thread retainer bar and take
the thread up, and run the end through the eye of the
thread take-up lever from right to left.
7. Draw the thread down through the face plate guides and
then through the needle clamp thread guide.
8. Draw the end of the thread through the eye of the needle
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, drawing it through about 3 or
4 inches. You are now ready to sew.
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Before threadinji the bobbin case, study Fig. 5, 6 and 7 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, leaving about two inches
of the thread end unwound
(Fig. 5). As the bobbin is
being inserted in the bob
bin case, the thread flow,
you will note, in clockw'ise
(Fig. 5).
3, I'hen pull it through under the tension spring of the
bobbin case (P'ig. 6) until it enters the delivery eye
(Fig. 7).
2. While holding the bobbin
case as before, grasp the
thread end with your right
hand, guide it into the
cross slot (Fig. 6).
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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, - Pull out slide plate (Fig. 8).
4. .‘\fter threading the bobbin case, hold its latch (Fig. 9) betw^een
the thumb and forefinger of left hand, with its position finger
, . opposite the notch at
the top of the shuttle
race and replace it on
the center stud of the
shuttle (Fig. 9).
5. Then release the latch
and press the bobbin case back until the latch catches the
groove near the end of the stud.
6. Allow the end of the thread to hang free.
7. Pull back slide plate.
Fig. 8
To remove the bobbin case do all the above in reverse order.
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When the thread is tangled in the race or lint gets into the
space between the shuttle and shuttle-race, this will cause
abrupt heavy running or complete stoppage of the machine.
When this occurs
L Raise the needle bar to its highest position and take the
bobbin case out.
2. Pull the KNOBS (A) on both side of shuttle race (Fig.
10 & 11) aside, then take out the outside ring and the
shuttle body with your fingers.
Fig. 11
3. After shuttle-race and bobbin case have been cleaned,
put all of them back in reverse order
Fig. 10
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1. Hold the end of the upper-thread with the left hand, leaving
it slack from the hand to the needle.
2. Turn the balance wheel toward you to raise the needle bar to
its highest position.
3. Pull the thread you are holding, as the lower thread will be
brought up with it through the hole in the needle plate, as
shown (Fig. 12).
4 Place both ends of the upper and lower thread to the back of
the presser foot (Fig. 13).
1. Place the fabric to be sewn beneath the presser foot.
2. Lower the presser foot by lowering the presser bar lifter.
3. Start sewing by slowly turning the balance wheel in directic n
toward you while gradually working the foot or knee control
ALWAYS TURN BALANCE WHEEL TOWARD YOU !
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