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Timing

Q: My machine is occasionally dropping stitches -- could it need retiming?

A: No. Singer Featherwerights very rarely loose their timing. I'd be checking the needle in this situation.

 

Q: Can I retime my Featherweight myself?

A: Yes, if you must -- see the service manual on this site, but if the helical gears have been disturbed it can be a fiddly job perhaps best left to a service engineer


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