Janome Memory Craft 500E, Instruction Book

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z
Threading the Machine
Raise the presser foot lifter.
Press the lockout key to lockout the machine.
Turn the handwheel toward you to raise the needle at its
highest position.
q
Lockout key
Pass the thread in order from
z
to
m
.
x
z
Pull the thread from the spool.
Hold the thread with both hands and pass the thread
into the slit of the pre-tension thread guide.
w
Slit
x
Wind the thread around the pre-tension thread guide
once as shown.
Draw the thread around the corner of the upper thread
guide.
Firmly pull the thread toward you along the right
channel until the thread snaps.
e
Pre-tension thread guide
r
Upper thread guide
t
Right channel
NOTE:
If the thread slips out of the pre-tension thread guide
while sewing, wind the thread through the hole as
shown
y
when threading through the pre-tension
thread guide.
c
Draw the thread down along the right channel and
around the bottom of the thread guide plate.
Pull the thread up along the left channel.
t
Right channel
i
Thread guide plate
o
Left channel
v
While holding the thread at the spool, firmly draw the
thread up and to the back of the take-up lever. Draw
the thread forward to draw it into the eye of the take-
up lever.
!0
Eye of the take-up lever
b
Then pull the thread down along the left channel and
through the lower thread guide.
!1
Lower thread guide
n
Slide the thread from the right of the needle bar thread
guide to the left.
!2
Needle bar thread guide
m
Thread the needle with the needle threader (refer to
the next page).
q
w
c
e
r
t
t
i
o
!0
v
b n m
!1
!2
NOTE:
If the thread coming out from the needle eye is too
short after auto thread cutting and skipped stitch
occurs, draw the thread through the pre-tension
thread guide as shown
u
.
y
u