Serger Sewing: Door & Parts of a Serger Sewing Machine

Video Transcript

"On behalf of expertvillage.com my name is Neal Jones and I’m with A Perfect Fit Alterations and we’re at 102 Main Street in historic old town Burleson and our phone number is 817-447-3522. Continuing with our serger we will we’ve gotten down to the about the quarter mark and then we’re going to open the door, now this door that is used while you’re operating the machine and it is also an area where we’ll be able there will be some service performed. Now in order to make this machine operate properly some of the adjustments that we’re going to need to do are inside this door as you can see the thread, the different colored threads for the sake of the demonstration we have loaded this machine with the color thread that is indicated by the adjustment but of course you don’t have use those colors, you can also use any color, you can use all the same color, the reason why the colors are there are to enable you to thread the machine the way it needs to be threaded. There are several major differences, this machine has two what we call the needles or the mechanisms at the bottom of the machine are called loopers and we have two, we have a lower looper, we have an upper looper and those loopers are to form the bottom part of the thread of the stitch. We also have two needles in this particular machine and those needles are similar to the needles that are in a regular sewing machine and they are able to supply the thread to the top of the machine. We also have another very important part of this inside this door which should be a permanent part of the machine and that is our thread guide here, this thread guide when the manuals are lost and not being used is very important because this machine is complex enough that you can’t possibly remember all of the ways to set it up for the different uses, so we have a thread guide here which shows different colors and it also shows a little diagram of a picture of the thread of the stitch that would be generated by this particular thread setup. If we were going to use a four thread which is this setup for now it tells you the order in which to thread the machine, we’ve got a number one here which is on the third one along, a number two on the fourth one along, a number four on the first one and a three on the second one. The reason why those numbers are out of order is that, that is the order in which the machine should be threaded."