Oh Brother! LS2125 hook timing

[@kmcpickl]

Thanks for such an honest video. You showed where to look for the bobbin problem and there it was. Running like a champ again missing only 1 screw. Makes us honest guys all alike. Great job.

[@JBFromOZ]

Thanks heaps for your comments and support cheers!

[@oanavinatoru]

Dissasembling the machine was not easier but deffinitely more fun and confident after watching your video and seeing you fumble with the covers 😅 Thanks for posting this!😊

[@JBFromOZ]

Yeah it was certainly a mission! Nonparts left behind!!

[@cherylbanning5665]

Thank you for showing the details of of the inside mechanism. My problem wasn't the same issue though. I kept watching to see if you would reveal the left side of the bobbin housing unit, and you did, about halfway in. One of those springs had become unhooked and I needed to see where it was supposed to be. Voila! You showed it when you turned the machine upside down to show the needle coming through to the bobbin thread. Thank you very much!

[@bbbustedflush]

It was a cold raining snowing day (11/13/18) and I decided to use the time to work on a sewing machine that hasn’t worked for two years. After searching the internet and finding very little help other than telling me I couldn’t fix it on my own I came across your post. I figured what the heck it’s already broke. So I watched your video and then studied the parts I might need. The bottom line is it works and I only have one tiny screw left over. You did a fine job (even with the helium narration I commented on earlier) and I want to thank you. John Harfmann-Yellville Arkansas.

[@JBFromOZ]

That is totally awesome John! So good to hear from you :-) helium is the 2x speed as I was worried it may end up being too long! Already 45 minutes Thanks heaps for letting me know too :-)

[@carmenlaswisse6762]

Thaaank you so much! Fixed my machine. Ready to shine!!! 🥳🔥😊

[@anru9492]

The gear has 2 small allen screws, you loosen them both, with a flat head scew driver slide the gear back, set the timming and push gear back in and tighten the allen screws again or when you open the machine, the flat black bar on the left of the reverse switch, only loosen the screws and only remove the middle screw, then you can tune the timming by hand. you will be able to manualy spin the shuttle gear, then put the middle screw back and tighten the others.

[@JBFromOZ]

Very good information thank you

[@wbwylie]

This method lets you set the timing from the front. You only need to take off the front plastic. Then there are 4 screws on that flat bar. Loosen all of them. You can then adjust the hook to the right position and tighten the screws. There quite a bit of adjustment here. Easy.

[@victoriabell7108]

I read about these two gears but can only find one and when I loosen it the entire bobbing housing area wiggles but doesn’t correct my slow timing. I’m so stuck

[@TheDinghyjohn]

Hey good day just saying thanks a million i get to sort out my machine and back on track very good demonstration

[@JBFromOZ]

That is awesome so happy to hear it helped thanks you for letting me know mate :-)

[@biadaukei496]

Thank you!!! I fixed mine just like you did. Thank you so much.

[@JBFromOZ]

Excellent news! Top work :-)

[@amandaramos5138]

Thank god and u for making this video the sewing machine was making a squeaky noise and I finally had some time and did all this and fixed it thank you 👍👍🙏

[@JBFromOZ]

It’s so awesome when you realise this is within your hands, and you fix it congratulations

[@peterz5622]

Thank you for the video. I am having the exact struggle like yours from 7.5 min to 11 min. After taking out all the screws, I put my hand around the front arm where the "brother" is printed. Give it a quick pull towards me. The front cover is out. The rest is easy.

[@JBFromOZ]

Yeah it had me scratching for a while, didn’t want to break my mate’s sewing machine

[@robinwidenius3060]

Thanks! Helped me fix my machine!

[@TheFishingHobby]

The amount of precision timing these things must have in order to work right is really amazing to me! The amount of engineering that goes into making them is really incredible if you stop and think about it! I parted out an old Singer because the timing was off. Never though about trying to find a repair video about it...oops!

[@JBFromOZ]

I have a playlist of industrial embroidery machine service videos, and even those being as big and complicated, end up being quite simple issues to repair, usually a bit of end float, timing, or wear on the rotary hook. of course sometimes there is a deeper issue, but that is part of the challenge for me, seeing how deep down the rabbit hole I go whilst still having a thread back to the surface ;-)

[@TheFishingHobby]

Cool! Glad I subscribed! I do some sewing occasionally to make things I need and to repair things. Not clothes really but stuff more like kayak seats and things.

[@JBFromOZ]

Awesome to have you on board! Thank you

[@amymerchant9847]

Thank you for this, just fixed my machine after weeks of trying various things! Movers dropped my machine when we moved house and it hadn’t been touched since... until I need to make masks in the middle of a global pandemic 😅

[@JBFromOZ]

Top work! Thanks for letting me know this helped too, legendary!

[@georgeharvey3062]

I’ve got a Brother VX-1500 that I’m about ready to toss out the window. I use it once every 10 years and the hook timing is some how off. Probably used it 5 times my entire time having it. I’ve watched every video and I can seem to get it working. My hook goes the opposite direction of everyone else’s on KZbin. I thought I could just adjust the needle, that didn’t work. Now I watch your video and I’m tearing apart the gear. The problem is I’m so mixed up now I don’t know where the gear should be and the plastic thing on top of the gear. I paid $99 at Walmart for it 25 years ago. I’m ready to pitch it and get another, but I’ve hardly used it.

[@JBFromOZ]

The most critical “timing” for a sewing machine is the point at which the bobbin hook passes behind the needle. The sewing needle travels down, then just as it starts to travel up again the bobbin hook must pass behind the needle, this is how the top thread is captured, and then travels around behind the bobbin forming the stitch. The essential part of the timing is that crossover point between the needle and the hook

[@georgeharvey3062]

JBFromOZ thank you. I’m going to work on it again today.

[@georgeharvey3062]

JBFromOZ well I fixed the time so the bobbin thread is picked up but now I have a different problem. When I’m sewing there is a whole big mess of thread in the bobbin area and then the needle bogs down. I can’t even pull out the thread. What do you think the problem might be? Thank you

[@JBFromOZ]

George Harvey possibly the “take up lever” is not threaded in correctly, or the top thread tensioner perhaps is dirty, and not providing resistance from drawing new thread from the spool. there is a lever above the needle which draws the loose thread up. As the lever pulls up, the tension pulls the loose thread back up as it goes.

[@georgeharvey3062]

JBFromOZ if I go slow spinning the wheel by hand it stitches correctly, but as soon as I use the motor is when it starts getting a mess of thread underneath around the spool.

[@gamingbros4123]

That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks

[@JBFromOZ]

Mate that is awesome! Thanks for sharing, this is exactly why I make my videos, glad you could make use of it Adam!

[@georgeharvey3062]

Are you ever going to get it back together? How many parts were left unused when finished?

[@JBFromOZ]

All back together, and returned to Dave, he managed to jump the teeth again at some point in the future, but was able to fix it himself using this video as well :-)

[@damondent1932]

Great job u saved me the torture room..urgggh

[@JBFromOZ]

Glad to hear it mate :-)

[@pawebrak9860]

great price easy to set up.

[@JBFromOZ]

Cheers

[@victoriabell7108]

Teaching my daughter to Sew and she’s rough on it 😢

[@JBFromOZ]

Awesome to be transferring the skills thank you :-)

[@yesseniabalcazar1816]

Me ayudó mucho su video. Gracias.

[@JBFromOZ]

Gracias por ver y comentar

[@ogrehaslayers605]

Lol. My daughter borrowed a friend’s sewing machine and now it’s super jammed

[@JBFromOZ]

ouch! is it tied up with thread? or mechanical interference?

[@ogrehaslayers605]

@@JBFromOZ mechanical. Don’t think my daughter did it, but since she was last to touch it that’s where the blame falls. Took it apart and the gear had come part way off in the back, and a bolt had fallen out. Then the timing was off. All better now. Thank you for the video!!!

[@Kehaulaninapua808]

Thank you. This was very helpful. I went on a few other ones and there was still something missing.

[@JBFromOZ]

Great happy that it helped you out!

[@ryoungatlmidotnet]

what actually slipped when the machine got knocked out of time?

[@JBFromOZ]

There is a rack and pinion arrangement between the rotary hook and the needle, essentially the rack jumped a tooth, so it was advanced one step, and the hook was no longer in the right location to catch the thread when the needle came down to bottom dead centre

[@ryoungatlmidotnet]

@@JBFromOZ Lucky it didn't break one of the plastic teeth!. The 2600 Brothers use a completely different arrangement to drive the hook. I tried to zig-zag with my straight stitch needle plate still in place, and BANG! Haven't quite figured it out, Diverstity2 here on KZbin has shown me the way to at least get the plastic front cover off. Next time "Dave" tries to push too much tough sheet goods through his machine, suggest using an Jeans or Microtex needle, the smallest diameter available, say an 80/12.. They are SHARP, sharper than the "Universal" needles, and can help a cheap plastic machine do the work of a Consew.

[@JBFromOZ]

Ryan Young I don’t think Jane has let him near her machine since!

[@731gdr]

Cool story bro, but you didn’t show me how to pull off the back cover and I’m stuck 😩 not sure which screws are essential and which aren’t. Hoping I can figure this out! Thanks

[@731gdr]

Jk, I got it! 😁

[@alifffirdaus6686]

Thanks bro...just fix mine.

[@doaflip15]

Cannot thank you enough

[@JBFromOZ]

Glad it helped :-)

[@EXITRecordsUA]

Wow! Friend i see you a good master! I I always respect workers! Nice!!! like!

[@JBFromOZ]

Thank you for watching and commenting :-)

[@evawalters8403]

My man fixed the tension on the machine

[@emilysmith7271]

Click what clip!!! Help!!!

[@JBFromOZ]

How can. I help? Not sure what your question is Emily

[@emilysmith7271]

JBFromOZ ha sorry didn't explain- when you finally got the front cover off you said you just needed to click the clip but didn't know what clip you meant! Managed it in the end with a bit of brute force, and miraculously it's back in working order 😂

[@JBFromOZ]

Emily Smith ahh yes! Top work! Glad you got your going! For others asking the question, follow the seam between the front and back covers from the needle assembly, trace to the right, and then where the seam becomes vertical, the clip is halfway up in that location.

[@markkevin7245]

Why can’t I have a friend like you… all the people I attract can’t do or as useful a chocolate teapot

[@JBFromOZ]

You have a friend like me right here! How can I help mate?

[@markkevin7245]

@@JBFromOZ ha well we can’t just crack open a few ciders! I’m all good just be cool if I had someone to share projects.

[@moniquelopez8543]

Hi one of the springs came off from this same model in this video it's not the one on the left part above the shuttle basket it's small s spring with two hooks at the end and I don't know how to reattach it they call it it a feed dog return spring but my manual has no name to this part can you demonstrate how to reattach this spring

[@JBFromOZ]

I no longer have this machine, I just fixed it for a friend. :-) best of luck

[@ryoungatlmidotnet]

The magic happens starting about 20 minutes in.

[@rdrnd928]

Whew!!! That was close! Now let's hope the wife doesn't watch your youtube channel!!! Enjoy that beer mate!!

[@JBFromOZ]

+RD RnD I am the solution bringer!! We just need to hope that Dave's missus doesn't watch my channel hehhe

[@khaledj7372]

RD RnD you didn't know how to open it do you think you know how to fix it if there's any problem

[@khaledj7372]

RD RnD you falling you show

[@Zoie3x8]

it's my machine, but i tried to sew some leather panels, and well, now it's, as the british say, 'Roight Fucked'. I can blame only myself. XD

[@JBFromOZ]

Never fear! The hook timing is easy to disrupt, but just as easy to reset

[@TROOKER]

Greetings friend from Mexico

[@PatchiRajan]

Nice Done 549...

[@JBFromOZ]

+Patchi Rajan cheers for your support thank you

[@gerardoarturomachucalozano8920]

saque la perilla selectora y la pieza va a salir solita¡

[@bundarauza976]

My machine.

[@carmenlaswisse6762]

What did I do wrong? My feeder won't circle like it should after I copied you. Eeks!

[@michaeltexeira6185]

Would you let him touch your machine. ,,good luck,, not even to wash my bike,,

[@bbbustedflush]

Great video but you need to lay off the helium during narration.

[@JBFromOZ]

Haha! good call!

[@axelburger9334]

To much work for the price of a new one

[@krzjim]

You got it fixed but the video is sloppy. It was sad to watch such a comedy of errors. A bit of reshooting and editing would make this a superior video. A case of the blind talking to a deaf person over a disconnected telephone.

[@JBFromOZ]

Thanks mate.. much joy in having the possibility of improvement!

[@bdjmourad6690]

Allah idallek. Ballagt 3ini m3ak 42 minutes fi batel!! Akhretha montitha demontitha. Hadja madertha

[@kennethshadford2123]

The moral is dont touch things you know nothing about

[@JBFromOZ]

I haven’t tried anything and I’m all out of ideas! “AVE”

[@carneeki]

It's more dangerous if you get caught while it's apart than if it's just 'broken'. :)

[@JBFromOZ]

Yes absolutely! i really should have put a section - "Selecting your work area" - find somewhere as far away from the living room and kitchen as possible, sure they might have a big table, really good light etc, but... if you are spread out all over the room when your partner returns.. aint no way you are hiding that ;-)

[@nowayjerk8064]

you missed 3 were subs and like what you do

[@JBFromOZ]

+Noway Jerk aww man I love you guys!! Thanks so much for your support through the tough times!!

[@rimmersbryggeri]

If your wife has this sewing machine she probably isnt that bothered about sewing. Nothing wrong with it but it's not what you would call heavy duty.

[@JBFromOZ]

I actually fixed this for a friend of mine who had borrowed it from his partner ;-)

[@rimmersbryggeri]

@@JBFromOZ Yeah. :) I have one of them of my own it's fine but pretty weak the kind of machine that bought used once to make some drapes and then put away and then given to charity when the closet is being cleared. Anything more than that and it seems all these cheaper jobbies go out of time or worse.

[@JBFromOZ]

My wife using a Janome MyStyle 32 also lightweight machine

[@rimmersbryggeri]

@@JBFromOZ I find I run into trouble with that machine if there are many layers of fabric so making clothes for example can be a struggle.

[@rimmersbryggeri]

@@JBFromOZ The janomes I have seen here in sweden are 2-3 times the price though so they should be a bit stronger.

[@E86Films]

Wow this person doesn't explain Nothing, he should talk more & he just show the Video. That's good but explain more ... Just go finish your beer &🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

[@JBFromOZ]

Thanks heaps for the beers and stopping by, hopefully there is enough to show which part is the cause of hook timing issue

[@E86Films]

@@JBFromOZ thanks it was helpful

[@perculaclown7]

Just saying, it wasn't 16 layers :)

[@JBFromOZ]

did you break it again Dave?

[@chrisgray917]

Well that was a waste of my time, you didnt do anything mechanical!!!

[@JBFromOZ]

Timing an engine is a critical part of a mechanic’s job, here we set the needle timing to the rotary hook, to avoid catastrophic collisions and broken needles