Perfect Partner Thread Stand
I hesitated to post I threaded it different than the diagram. So many have gotten good results once they tinker with the settings, I figure sending to the List won't offend anybody, maybe it will promote the contraption. Turning those eyes fine tuned my PP; small degrees of slant in the eye settings make noticeable differences. If there's a particularly curly spool of thread (sounds better than " twisted " but high twist threads are the worst), I adjust the first eye a little more counterclockwise and that helps. Oh yes, the cut & pasted suggestions:
" .. I do not thread mine like the directions (I don't thread it at all, that's why the screw eyes have 1 side of the eye open to pull thread into place) and this is my 'trademarked secret process'. Yeah, sure... Get out a spool and do this as you read, OK?
First (outer) thread pin: turn screw eye above pin at 11oclock (closed end at 11 and open end at 5).Pull thread directly up with left hand holding thread left of eye and right hand right, thru the opening.
Next eye on arm going right same setting, same hand/thread, pull up thru eye opening.
Eye on top front of mast, looking into mast from perspective of arm, set eye horizontal with closed side at 9 (toward back) and open side of eye at 3 (at front of mast). Pull thread thru opening so front of thread is below eye going up thru and above eye (over closed part of eye) toward back of mast heading for tension disk.
Lower thread and direct it in tension disk from bottom and over top,
then thru same 9/3 horizontal screw eye, this time back thru from top (back of mast direction) thru eyelet opening so thread exits through the back.
I've been extremely lucky with it. (I have kept notes for over a year!)
Second pin, closest to mast, is much more fun! From back of PP looking
forward, the back arm eyelet is placed horizontal at 9 closed and 3 open side of eyelet. Pull thread up and thru opening from outside to inside which is the only way that makes sense seeing where eyelet is opening and where thread has to go next.
Here comes your favorite eyelet, and from arm left side, looking at mast, it's set at 5 closed and 11 open side of eye. Hold left hand with thread behind mast and right hand thread to the front of lower tension disk and simply pull down. Thread goes into eye.
Go top around back and under bottom on lower disc to
last eye which (from perspective of arm is set at
8oclock closed and 2 open. Slip thread into eye from opening at top front and go to machine.
Mary
I'm new to the EU, but have found a hint about the PP that seems to solve some of the tension problems. The eye screw at the top tension knob, doesn't seem to like the thread going into and then after going around the tension knob, going back out of it. At the local hardware store, I bought a package of small eye screws, the same size as on the PP and screwed in an extra one right below the one that came with the PP. Now my thread goes up, then along the " rod " , through the eye screw that I installed, around the disc, out through the original eye screw, and then through the " light hole " of the EU and then continue with regular threading. I also did not turn all the eye screws the way the directions explained, I just watched the thread as it went along the threading path, and turned the eye screws in such a way as to take any pressure off the thread. Except for one of the eye screws, by sheer
chance I suppose, all my eye screws were turned in the same direction as
someone else on this list explained. Dumb Luck!!! :))
Carol Mangum
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