It's nothing more annoying than discovering problems with your stitches while you are sewing. if the stitches have loops or looks bad, there is a big chance that your tension is wrong. Sometimes you just have to retread the machine, but on rare occasions, you might have to do a tension adjustment on your Brother CS6000i sewing machine.
How to Confirm Tension issues
Thankfully, it's easy to discover tension issues. On which side the loops appear can tell us a lot about how we can solve the issue.
If the tension is to tight, loops will appear on the top of the fabric.
If the tension is to lose, loops will appear on the back of the fabric.
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How to Adjust Tension on Brother CS 6000i
When you identify the need to do tension adjustment it's easily done by turning the tension selector on the top of the sewing machine. turn the wheel left to increase the tension, and right do decrease the tension. Don't put on to much tension as it can lead to needle fatigue or break the needle.
Other issues that can lead to tension problems:
If you have tried adjusting the tension, there can be other issues that can lead to tension issues.
Below you can see the list of the most commonly known tension problems.
The Sewing machine isn't threaded correctly
Retread the machine with the pressure foot up, to loosen the tension discs and the needle in a down position.
The pressure foot isn't correctly installed
Re-attach the pressure foot. Make sure you have a pressure foot that fits your sewing machine
The wrong type of bobbin or error while wounding the bobbin.
Try a different type of bobbin or rewound the bobbin.
Other useful resources:
-You can click click here to visit Brothers' video tutorial on tension adjustments.
- You can download Brother CS 6000i User manual here.
Bobbin Hook timing can be incorrect.
If it sounds like the bobbins are trying to escape from the housing you might have the bobbin upside down when you threaded it or you used the wrong type of bobbin. On rare occasions, The bobbin hook timing is wrong and needs readjustment.
The Perfect tension
The Zigzag seam above illustrates the perfect tension. The image belongs to Brother.com
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