Clean the Shuttle Race

This area must be kept free of dust, lint and occasional tangled thread. Clean the shuttle race area about every three months.

Nettoyage de la coursiOre

La navette doit _tre gardde exempte de poussikreo de charpie et de bouts de fiI emm_tds. Nettoyez la navette

torts los trois ntoi&

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cenler pmel the shuttle Axe de la navette

To Clean the Shuttle Area:

1.Raise the needle bar to its highest point and remove the bobbin case.

2.Push shuttle race levers aside. Lift shuttle race cover and take shuttle out.

3.Clean the shuttle race with a llnt brush.

4, Put a drop et oil on the center pin el the shuttte and shuttle race. Do not over-oiL

Nettoyage de la navette:

). Fades retnonter la barre de l'atguille a sa position la plus dlev_e et rettrez le porte-canette

2.Faites pivoter de chaque cot_ tes pattes de retenue du couvercle de la coursiere, enlevez ce dernter et retirez la navette.

3.Nettayez la coursi_re a l' atde d' ua ptnceal_ a c]tarpze.

4.Mettez loze goutte d'huile sz_r l'axe eomtmttz de Ia

navette et de Ia cottrsiOre. Ne huilezjamats excesszvement.

Patte de retemte Bobbin c_ase kN

]_orte*c(J_tette

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Shutttedriver

Etttr_z_tze.navette

i< _ Lever

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Co,,_i_.e .Po,.tedheekl!f_ //II

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(Oil here)

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Shuttle

 

Race "_

 

Cover

 

Couvercle de

 

cotlrsi_re

To Replace Shuttle Assembly:

1.Position shutlle race as illustrated so that shuttle driver is forming half moon on the left side of the machine.

2.Hold shuttte by center pin and position shuttle so as to form a half moon on the right side. The pointed hook wilt be on the bottom.

3.Place shuttle race cover into place over shuttle assembty.

4.Snap the levers back into the original position.

Remontage de la navette:

1. [_[ettez [_z cottrsidre comme montrE pour que

t"entrai'ne-canette forme tttt croissant de _une a la gaztche,

2.Tenez fa navet_e par l"axe central et plaeez-la avec ie crochet pointu toutvtd vers Ie has, afin qu" il se forme un crotssa]tt de ltme a ta drotte.

3.Mettez le couvercle de coursi_re en place par-dessus l'ensentble de la navette.

4.Faites pivoter los pattes de retenue a four position d'origine.

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