With the bobbin case out, my machine runs. With the bobbin case in, something hits it and knocks it out and knocks the timing out.
By Donald D
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I had a machine that only used plastic bobbins; metal ones would throw off the timing. Maybe this is your problem.
Have you checked online to see if there are any helpful hints or Q&A sections on the brand's webpage? That might be helpful. Check in your owners manual and see if you have the bobbin wound properly. I agree with the previous poster, that perhaps the type of bobbin you are using will not work in this machine.
You can't fix this at home. I do vintage (and some modern) sewing machine repair for my sewing students and this is not a job I would take on because I'm not a factory trained repair tech.
Re-timing a sewing machine is not an easy job and requires a rather expensive service manual (I paid close to $300USD for my Singer manual, used, and it only covered machines up to the early 70s; I bought it 15 years ago, and have since moved to the UK) plus some specialty tools that only a professional will have (not a self taught like I am - I have some tools but not the ones for the timing since moving to the UK).
As another poster has mentioned, using the wrong type (and size class) of bobbin is a sure fire way to throw the timing out on a machine. For example, some 'modern' machines use a magnetic timing system - use a metal bobbin in those and the timing goes.
But there are so many other ways to throw the timing on a sewing machine that only a professional will be able to tell you how it happened so that it never happens again.
Please, take your machine to a pro. You'll be glad you did. And while it's there, have it serviced - be sure to ask the cost of the repair AND the servicing, not all repair techs will do a servicing at the same time they do a repair.
Sometimes it is just something simple. Once, when cleaning out the bobbin area, I put it back together just a little bit wrong. When I took it back apart and reassembled it, the bobbin stayed in.
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