Eldredge Model P Sewing Machine Instruction Manual

Description

Eldredge Model P Sewing Machine Instruction Manual.

Includes:
Machine threading.
Adjusting ball bearing stand.
To remove the shuttle.
Needle chart.
Sewing guide.
Regulate feed.
Bobbin winding.
Face plate.
Spooler step spring.
Flywheel.
Take-up rivet.
Belt replacement.
Regulate the tension.
Parts diagram.
Oiling.
Much more!

30 page instruction/owners manual.

Eldredge Model P Sewing Machine Instruction Manual.

Free-Westinghouse, Eldredge, Montgomery Ward
Reversew, Long shuttle, National E, Eldredge E

 

THE BELT
Your machine works best with as loose a belt as will serve to wind the bobbin.
If too loose, disconnect the coupling and cut a little off from one end, about half an inch.

To run on the belt after it has been taken off the pulley wheels to be shortened, or to allow the head to turn back for oiling or cleaning, it is only necessary to lay the
belt in the groove of the hand wheel, and then turn the driving wheel of the stand towards you and draw the belt across the inside edge of the pulley rim, on which there is a little finger or projection that acts as a belt replacer.
As the wheel revolves towards you this finger will catch the belt and run it into its proper place in the groove.

SKIPPED STITCHES
These are sometimes caused by the needle being too small for thread, or not being set up as
high in the bar as it will go. Also by the needle being bent, or by dirt or lint collecting in the groove cut for the needle in the face of the
shuttle race; also by the needle being set in wrong with a long groove toward shuttle-always have
short groove towards the shuttle.

BREAKING THE UPPER THREAD
May be caused by the needle not being properly set, the machine not threaded correctly, the
upper tension too tight, the thread uneven and the needle too small for it, the eye
of the needle being too sharp, the presser foot is attached to the machine so that the
needle rubs against it, or by a sharp place or burr being formed on the needle plate
around the needle hole, by needles being allowed to strike it.
Breaking of thread is also caused by using a needle of improper dimensions; one not made for
this machine, or through the upright part of the shuttle carrier spring· breaking or working
loose and catching the upper thread as it loops around the shuttle.

BREAKING THE LOWER THREAD
May be caused by too much tension in the shuttle, by the bobbin being wound too full so that the
thread at the end slips over the bobbin.in the shuttle, by the thread being caught in
the shuttle slide plates or by a burr formed in needle plate hole through the needle
striking it.
The shuttle slides should always be kept tightly close when operating the machine, the bobbin should never be wound so full as to prevent its being turned freely in the shuttle.

TO REGULATE THE FEED
For ordinary work, the feed requires no change and should remain as when received. In sewing very thick and soft, spongy goods it may be necessary to raise it a little. This is done very easily with this machine by loosening the little set screw in feed lever adjustment marked
“F” on cut showing the working parts of the machine on page 4, and sliding the feed lever a trifle to the right. This has the effect of raising the feed bar and with it the feed proper, and yet there is no possibility of getting the feed out of level, a very common source of trouble with other machines.
When the feed is raised to the point desired, fasten the set screw again firmly, to lower the feed slide lever to the left.