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Member since 9/8/07
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Posted on: 9/8/07 0:12 AM ET
I have a baby lock DL4-736D serger. My bottom threader broke and I have tried to follow the instructions to rethread it but it does not work right. Where can I find a clearer picture of how to thread the bottom looper?
  
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Posted on: 9/8/07 7:38 AM ET
If your serger is as touchy as mine, I sometimes have to totally unthread it as on my serger it is very very important to thread it in order, another words which spool of thread I thread first...must be that some threads have to be over or under the other and if I do not thread it in the order that the manufacturer suggests...IT WILL NOT WORK
  
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Posted on: 9/8/07 8:11 AM ET
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I've had mine for three years. I finally took a photo of the threading because it was so hard for me to figure out the photos. I'm sorry I'm not familiar with your model.
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Posted on: 9/8/07 9:49 AM ET
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The order in which you thread the looper needles often makes a difference. For instance, your machine may want the bottom looper threaded first, then the top looper.

If your bottom thread broke and you try to thread it alone, you'd be threading out of order and it probably won't work. You may need to unthread your top looper as well, then thread both needles in the proper order.
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Posted on: 9/8/07 4:13 PM ET
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Sometimes the lower looper has a cut out groove in the left side of it's head to put the thread through. Some have a wire hook to hook the thread around and some just have a little hole to thread at the left end then you still have to thread the loopers eye on the right.
Usually it is the upper looper that needs threading first, then the lower looper. No matter what order you thread in, the needles will need to be threaded last or rethreaded again if you break a looper thread. If the needle threads are not clear of the stitch finger area..you will just break threads again or get tangles. So, after threading your loopers..then thread the needles, then take all the threads to the back and left of the pressure foot. With foot down..start to serge then add fabric. You will not need to help pull or push the fabric after the fabric grabs, your little beast should then gobble it up on it's own and you will be very proud of it's performance.
Best of luck to you.
  
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Posted on: 9/18/07 6:50 AM ET
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Usually it is the upper looper that needs threading first, then the lower looper.


FYI, my Janome is just the opposite. Lower looper first, then upper looper.
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Posted on: 9/18/07 10:43 AM ET
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I have a baby lock DL4-736D serger. My bottom threader broke and I have tried to follow the instructions to rethread it but it does not work right. Where can I find a clearer picture of how to thread the bottom looper?

If you do not have a manual, there should be a threading guide inside the door on the front of the serger. Best to remove the thread and start all over.

I tried to avoid having to re-thread the loopers by tying off the new thread, but when the thread breaks, your best bet is to start fresh from the spool to the needle.

I finally solved my "looper angst" by trading in the old pain for a Babylock Imagine, which has auto thread for the loopers.
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Posted on: 10/8/07 11:17 PM ET
I have the same problem. If I don't put those lower loopers just right the thread breaks. I have an old White, probably 10 or more years old but a great sewing machine. I too tie off the thread but once in awhile it will break or I want to clean it really good and take them out.

I had a horrible time pushing the thread underneath and behind everything to get it in the bottom loop where I couldn't reach and the left side then the right.

Last time I took a big upholstery needle I had and pushed that needle behind the post, slipped the thread into that bottom loop, then wrapped around the top and just stuck the needle back the way it came, easiest I've ever done. I know mine threads different but I bet not that much different then the others. I line those 2 pieces practically side by side and lay the thread on top with neither laying over the other but sort of side by side and that works.

The other thing to remember is make sure the thread is pulled tight behind each of the 4 tension plates, again you end up with big loopy loops if you don't.

I hope some of this is understandable, hard for me to explain.
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