mamu Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 I was wondering how many times you wrap your thread around your tension disc's? 1, 1 1/2, 2 times??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankiequilter Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 I do not wrap the thread around the tension disks. I bring it in from the right, around the bottom of the disks, catch the wire finger and make sure the thread is seated in the disks, and continue to the take up lever. It never occurred to me to wrap the thread around the disks to add tension to the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustSewSimple Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 Yes, it is not usual to "wrap" around the tension disk on a long arm or a domestic machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.A Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 Agreed. I never heard of that either. Hmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamache Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 It depends on the machine. I know the Innova wraps it 1 1/2 times around the tension disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamu Posted March 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 Well, I usually do as Carmen does. However, I decided to wrap around once and then catch the wire finger. I found that the stitches seem to be a bit nicer doing this. I know it is different with ever machine, mine is an ULT11. I was wondering what everyone else was doing and if they saw a difference in wrapping or not. ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimerickson Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 You typically do not wrap thread around the tension disks. It just goes almost around, and is "pinched" between the tension assembly disks. The rotory tension assemblies are different, and you do wrap the thread around the assembly, typically 1.75 times. Wrapping around the disk system will inrease your tension, which you should be able to do by simply tigntening the disks. If you wrap, you run the risk of the thread catching on the "screw" that the assembly tightens on, and perhaps damaging the thread. That being said, I do wrap the thread once around my bobbin winder tension assembly. I do that to make sure that the thread does not come out of the tension assembly when I change threads. (I tie off and pull the thread through rather than re-threading each time I change) I've given some thought to adding a rotory assembly to my machine, because it would take up the slack between the tension assembly and the take up lever, but I haven't gotten around to thinking it all out yet. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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