@Elmo Calabrese How was it incorrect? And how should it go?

@Elmo Calabrese Thanks, that was a good video that you linked! I was commenting on the way he tilted the machine head to show how the whole boat shuttle travelled through the loop made by the upper (needle) thread.

@@ugthump2753 First up - do not remove the shuttle from the machine by lifting up on the leaf spring. Once damaged or distorted (or broken) they are nigh-on impossible to fix and are getting very expensive to replace (when you can find one). You want to press down on the point of the shuttle and push it up and out at the blunt end. This can be tricky if you don't have dainty fingers. If you can't get it out from the top, tilt the machine back and pop dislodge it from the bottom! That is surprisingly easy and quick. To thread the shuttle: The thread should come over the top of the bobbin and towards the two long slots on one side of the shuttle. It goes out of the shuttle through the lower slot and back in through the upper slot (going over the bar between the slots). Then you take the thread across the bobbin to the other side of the shuttle and you *must* feed it out the hole closest to the blunt end of the shuttle first. The reason you do that is so that the thread is pulled off the bobbin from the middle. You can go in and out of as many of the holes in a line towards the sharp end of the shuttle as you like to get the tension you want BUT the last hole used *must* be the one closest to the point. If that took the thread in towards the bobbin it exits out of the shuttle through the small single slot under the line of holes. When the thread has exited the shuttle for the last time it must go under the leaf spring to finish. Going in one hole and then out of another hole means just that - go out, in, out, in etc. Don't be tempted to adjust tension by, for example, going out of a hole, over the "edge of the boat" and then out of another hole (or vice versa). That can shred your thread and wear grooves in your shuttle that, when pushed to the limit, turn your holes in slots. The whole thing is easiest done with tweezers! To test that the tension is not too tight pull the thread off the bobbin in the direction of the the sharp end of the shuttle - it should come off the bobbin smoothly. Then pull the thread off the bobbin towards the blunt end. If it breaks you know you've got the tension too tight! (You can have it too loose as well, but that's usually pretty obvious as you feel little-to-no resistance no matter which way you pull.) The heavier the fabrics you're sewing the "tighter" you want the tension on the bobbin to be - and the longer you need the stitch to be too. You may well have to test a few different "hole threading" combinations for the particular thread size and type of sewing you are doing. When you have it just right for the project you're working on make a note of what you did so that when you need to load the next bobbin you can thread it up just right the first time. If there are things you commonly sew (like quilting cotton with a size 40 thread, for example) you can keep a little notebook with your favourite bobbin-threading "settings". Then, knowing the bobbin is right, you needle only twiddle a little with the top tension when you've changed to something else for a while and then want to go back sewing your quilting cottons with your size 40 thread. :-) Finally, do keep your shuttle very clean and polish it if it isn't shiny and smooth - that really makes a difference to stitch quality.

Las agujas comunes funcionan bien.

Thanks, this is completely original with the rare-ish early decals .