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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Words to the Wise

If you love your sewing machine, here's a little tip...

You know those little cans of compressed air?

Don't use them to blow the lint out of your machine.

The lint has nowhere to go, you see...except deeper into your machine.

Here's a machine I saw earlier this week.  It's not an old machine and was serviced just a year ago.  The outside and the bobbin case area was clean as whistle.  But, the inside...the part the user can't get to (or shouldn't get to) was covered in lint.  The owner had been "cleaning her machine with canned air.

Here's the back view...

and the front view...

The canned air blows the lint and threads all the way to the handwheel and can cause all kinds of problems like binds, impeding your feed dogs, not to mention soaking up all the oil.

This is the top of the machine just under the bobbin winder.  Lint and threads around the circuit boards can cause damage to the boards...cha-ching!

All that lint in there can cause tension problems and can cause your thread to not loop properly - no loop means no stitch.

Here's just part of what I pulled out of this machine.

So...word to the wise...no canned air.  Use your lint brush in the parts you can reach and bring your machine in to your dealer's service department annually for a check-up.

WE can used canned air because we see your machine naked.