6. CHANGING NEEDLE
Turn the balance wheel towards you until the needle bar is raised to its highest. Loosen
the needle clamp screw, take off the old needle (Fig. 10), and insert a new one into the
needle clamp (Fig. 11) as far as it touches the screw, with its flat side facing the balance
wheel, then tighten the needle clamp screw.
Fig. 10
Fig. 11
7. UPPER THREADING
Turn the balance wheel towards you until the needle bar is raised to its highest. Place a
real of thread on the spool pin on the machine arm. Pass the end of thread into the notch
at right top of the faceplate (Fig. 12-1), down and through the tension disc (Fig. 12-2),
and fender level (Fig. 12-3) from back to front into the loop of the thread take-up spring
(Fig. 12-4), up from back to front through the hole of the take-up lever (Fig. 12-5), down
through the face plate guide (Fig. 12-6), needle bar thread guide (Fig. 12-7). Finally from
left to right through the needle eye, leaving an end of thread about 7cm for catching
bobbin thread.
Fig. 12
