Ugh! (Part 2 of an ongoing saga..)

[whisperkit]

I posted recently about my sewing machine suddenly starting to drop stitches in lycra. After a long afternoon of cleaning, needle-switching, tension fiddling and testing, I got it to limp through with a high enough picked-up stitch rate that it did the job. However, now I'm finding that it's doing similar on fleece. The annoying thing is, I've

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[mutive]

I'm not sure, as my experience with sewing machines tends to be "bring them into the repair shop". But, I had a machine that started dropping stitches on nearly everything. (Although it had more problems with certain fabrics at first.)

Apparently the timing was off. So no matter how I fiddled with everything, it didn't matter, because the problem wasn't lubrication or tension - it was timing. I have no idea how you fix this (although I'm sure you could google it), but the repair guy got it going again better than ever. Of course, it cost like...$80. But, that's still cheaper than a new machine.

[indigoth]

I'm not going to act like I'm any sort of expert as I know next to nothing about sewing machines but it sounds like something is loose. Maybe you can find a mom and pop repair shop and have them take a look at it or you can go to a fabric store and ask the opinion of the employees there. Some of them should be familiar with the quirks of sewing machines.

Better Tools.

[capybyra]

Screwdrivers that come with sewing kit these days are often junk. A quality flatblade driver or crosspoint bit driver will be priced in line with it's functionality.

Wd's not per se a break free either. There's a risk that stuff which can chemically or lubricant modes do anything, might east plastics, wiring etc. It's 0200 here and I'm back to bed- followed you here from the CD community..