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On behalf of expertvillage.com my name is Neal Jones and I’m with A Perfect Fit Alterations
in old town Burleson, our phone number is 817-447-3522 and today we’re here to look
at a household over lock sewing machine commonly referred to as a serger. The serger is somewhat
complicated in as much that a regular basic, it does a lot more thing than a regular basic
sewing machine although it’s specific to a particular type of sewing in a particular
stitch. We’re going to start at the front of the machine with the different types of
thread holding devices, here we have a mass that holds the thread, one of the most important
things on this machine is the fact that the threads do not become tangled because this
machine runs at a fairly high speed when you really start to sew with it and the thread
will follow a path and they have to go through various things to make sure that they don’t
tangle. As we come down the front of the machine we have non tangled devices with little springs
in there across the top to feed the different color threads down through. On top of the
machine we have an adjustment for our pressure foot and then further down we’ve got four
different thread tension adjusters, now the thread tension adjusters are color coded in
order to aid us with threading the machine. The machine has pads for the thread to follow
and they are color keyed as you can see here, we have two thread guides that service the
needle side and we have two thread guides that service the looper side and this particular
machine is a four thread serger and it will sew with four threads, it’ll sew with three
threads and it’ll sew with two threads.