My machine is the New Home Model 920 and I bought it new at least 20 years ago or more. This is the first problem I have had with it.
I normally had the tension set centered between 3-5 (which is the mid/normal setting). And I typically use the tricot setting as I do a lot of mending on jeans. On this setting the teeth move front to back and up and down, when I ran the machine without fabric (sort of a ferris wheel rotation). The feet are above the plate. Sewing using 1 layer of denim material, the fabric was not being fed. If I doubled up the fabric it would feed. I reset the tension to about 7-8 and was then able to feed a single layer of denim. But this tension setting on the New Home is almost at the max and is not the normal setting that I always had it set at.
I have cleaned & oiled the machine. There was only the big plate that covers the arm (I did get the bobbin plate off) that I could not get the screw loose to take off. That my husband will be doing when he looks at the machine.
Typically I have the stitch length set at 2 but will try the 3.
Is there anything that could wear out on the tension setting control?
Mary
November 2007