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Here is a picture of my thread path.  In my manual, starting on p. 117, it has a section entitled "Thread Path for Your APQS Machine (use this path if you are NOT using the Top Thread Break Sensor)"  However, the very next section is entitled "Style L Bobbin Case Instructions" and starts on p. 121.  None of the threading instructions talk about the disk in the middle of the machine above the first 3-hole piece.  I have wrapped the thread around that disk after coming out of the 3-hole piece but my machine won't sew.   The USB drive I received has a very old video using a different machine.

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I can't see your thread path too well in your photo - thread's too light-colored.  On your USB drive, there should be a document about the "New Controls" - there should be instructions on using the Thread Break Sensor in that document, if I remember correctly.  In a nutshell, your thread path should usually be as follows:  Up from your cone of thread into the first thread guide (this guide should be centered over the cone), forward to the three-hole guide under the Thread Break Sensor.  Wrap around that guide three times, starting at the bottom - go through the bottom hole back-to-front, back around to do the same with the middle hole and the top hole.  Then around the Thread Break Sensor, in the same direction as the arrow on it is pointing, then forward to the other three-hole guide.  Go through the top hole in that guide, front-to-back, then back down through the last hole.  Down to the tension assembly, around it (making sure that the thread is seated between the tension plates), over the check spring, down under the "shepherd's crook" thread guide, up to the take-up lever, down through the pigtail, around to the pigtail above the needle, then through the needle.  Clear as mud??

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Thank you for the tip about the additional information in another part of the literature and the explanation of the thread path.  We have threaded and re-threaded the machine, and we are 99% certain now that it isn't a threading problem.  Our needle won't come back up.  The machine just won't sew.  We can engage Quilt Path, and the machine will follow the pattern, but the needle won't move up and down.  The needle also won't move when we try free motion either.  It doesn't seem to matter whether Quilt Path is used or not. 

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  • 2 years later...

Barb, do you ALWAYS wrap every thread 3 times around the thread break sensor wheel or does it depend on the weight of the thread you're using?  With 40 weight King Tut, I feel like going three times around that wheel is adding way too much additional tension to my top thread and making it difficult to get a balanced stitch, even with the upper tension dial loosened to the point that the tension discs aren't touching.  

I really wish APQS would issue a completely revised manual for the current machine models rather than a book that refers primarily to discontinued models with completely different controls, and making new owners go hunting around for the "new controls" information.  Didn't these "new controls" come out, like, 10 years ago -- isn't that enough time to update the manual?  An outdated owner's manual makes it that much more difficult for new owners to become comfortable using their machines.

Rebecca Grace

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