A threader that doesn't like some threads!

[coffeebreak]

Here's something odd that I have NEVER heard anyone mention here....I have a Singer Quantum 9960 Stylist. Biggest problem with this machine is the threading feature. You have to totally unwind the machine to wind a bobbin..which is so annoying! IF the thread breaks above the needle, you have to unthread the whole machine to get the end of the thread to re thread. But it has a little feature to thread the needle. A little thing that you pull down right next to the needle and it pokes through the eye of the needle and pulls the thread through. Best thing about this machine! Well...it works for awhile and then stops. The little thing doesn't poke through the eye. I sent it back to where I bought it, they just replaced the feature with no response as to why it happened. I am very careful to not bend it or anything like that.
Well, it happened again. I was so mad..right in the middle of a project and it stops working. I can thread it by eye sight, but it is hard. Well, I changed thread and used a different thread color. And the threader worked! I changed back to the color I had..and it didn't work!..well,, research showed... this little threader thing won't thread if used with Aruiful brand (probably spelled wrong! ) thread! I used COnnecting Threads cotton and Coats and Clark cottons...and the threader works fine. What is it about Aruiful that makes it not let the threader work? I can't figure that one out! Anyone had this kind of problem before?

[HdWench]

Aren't those great threaders! Some days I can not get mine to work *sigh* so a tiny piece of white paper taped to my sewing bed I hold up behing the needle and ah hem, using my cheater glasses I can SEE the hole to thread it again. Why do those little gadgets get so picky?? Mine didn't have any lint I could see on it, did yours?

hmm You are on your second wonder how long they do last? Sandy Nevas has several great self threaders, and I believe there are self-threading sewing machine needles! You know how you run down the thread tension discs? These needles are threaded like that no aiming and poking away at some tiny hole we can't sEE hehehe

Good luck hope more folks come say do they use theirs? Do they like them? Do they have issues with certain threads or ???

oh 1 of mine is a Viking, the other a Pfaff? and yours is a Singer so it varies across wide spans of machines -- You think that threading "helper" is made by the same company for all these machines? Got my interest peeked!

thanks Debbie

[Lisapc]

I have the Singer Futura ce-350 with a threader that doesn't like Robison Anton. It will thread it sometimes but not always. Kind of irritating.

[ilive2craft2]

I have a babylock and my needle has to be in the top most position for it to work right - can't have hand turned the wheel even slightly. Since I have a needle up/down button, I have finally gotten into the habit of hitting that before I attempt to use the needle threader. It works for me, hope it helps!

[bubba]

Oh my goodness!!!! My Singer threader worked when I first got it. Once I started using Aurifil, it has never worked and I figured it was just out of alignment. This never occured to me, and since I never use any other thread for piecing, I would never know! I'm going to have to see if I have a random spool somewhere and check this in the morning, if I remember. I think it might be a long night trying to stay awake at work and I may forget by then!

Very interesting.....

[easyquilts]

My Janome has a needle threader.... It has never broken...in going in seven years.....and always works, if the needle is in the highest position. I use the up/down button to make sure that happens....

I've never noticed it being picky about the thread I use.mmd

[Bubby]

It takes me longer to use the needle threader on my machine than to thread the machine the regular way. I consider it pretty useless.

[Sandy Navas]

Yup, threaders. Never noticed a problem with thread types. BUT I was truly amazed the last time I took my machine (Viking) to have routine maintenance done - the sales 'guy' was checking to see if there was anything he could do (other than dropping it from the top of the table . . . again) to give the technician a day of rest. He went to thread it and actually became kind of rude because I had a small needle in place and . . . get this "You need to have at least a size 16/100 or larger needle to use the threader." And I thought, "Okay, Dummy, and if the needle is that large I can see the hole and easily thread it the regular way. " Give me a break - if you are going to have a threader on the machine it better be able to thread at least a size 11/75 needle or it is NO GOOD and a waste of real estate, especially on an embroidery machine.

[Hulamoon]

My Babylock threader does an okay job. I use robison anton embroidery thread. This is going to sound stupid, but it doesn't like certain colors. lol

[IwantItgreen]

Superior recommends top-stitch needles for all their thread. With the bigger eye in a top-stitch needle, do you think that would help?
I have a Bernina 440 and have no problem with mine.