Do not try to re use a pre wound bobbin this is the result. I was going to see if I could re wind it.
85867Oh my gosh, but it realy made a big mess. Thanks for showing all that it does not work.
15907I use the plastic sided ones but have had this happen to me with them. First few I did were great. Then..........had this happen to a few. The next few I did were great again. Finally started looking at the bobbins. The ones that had a small stress crack near the center were the ones that would break. Decided it was less expensive to just buy them prewound, and if I had to have matching bobbin thread jus go ahead and buy a few more of my machine bobbins and wind them with the thread. May not be less expensive but it sure saves on my flustration level. Sorry this happened to you.
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145791oh my, sorry for you .I've never used pre wound bobbin, and to take a look at this, I think I just keep making the bobbin my self.
743327Makes me nervous just looking at the picture- at least you were not hit by a flying bobbin,* to cheer you up.
18403Oh, What a mess! I am so sorry! I have never used a prewound bobbin. I wind the bobbin on one machine while I am sewing on the 2nd one. The babylocks take the same one and my Singer embroidery machine is different size but the same size bobbin as my normal sewing machine. I bought 3 sep. rubber divided containers and wrote the machine names on the front and try to keep them apart. I use embroidery thread/bobbin thread in the embroidery machines and totally different in the reg machine. I have lots of colored spools of thread for the serger that i paid nearly nothing for and I hate to change the serger so badly that I just use white on everything or use the reg sewing machine. I am sure that alot of it is no good as long as I have had it. I paid something like .50 a cone for the extra from the salvage store in Sandersville before the owner had a wreck and her son(grown) closed down the place. She was on up there in yrs and lived in the Atlanta area and they had a Salvage store in Sandersville and in Cummings, Ga.
24961What a mess. Hope it didn't destroy your project. Great lesson to pass on. Thank you
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3196Thank you for the tips to try rewinding the plastic ones instead. I am not quite in the frame of mind to try yet!!! Maybe later. Flowers to all. Kay
85867I have rewound the plastic sided bobbins--a couple have broken but on the whole haven't had a problem.
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255054255054It is good to know what can happen. Katy, thanks for the warning.
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38135Sorry for your troubles - I use the plastic sided ones and rewind on them for FSL so I have lots of bobbins for the different colors.
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11271Kay I never tried it so now I know not to. but I have has the plastic ones to break and do the same thing
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32767Oh my... what a mess. So sorry this happened to you.
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29648I can reuse the plastic pre-wound but the paper sided ones don't refill. Sorry you had to find out the hard way. I hate it when I waste the thread. Here's a flower for you since you had a bad day with bobbins. *
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4436Oh yes, re-winding pre wound isn't a good thing - usually. Hope you can save some of that thread. Thanks for sharing.
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211079I always use pre-wound bobbins, unless I am doing FSL. My machine does not like the cardboard sides, so don't use them. Good luck rewinding them.
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44905looks like it was a paper sided one... I rewind the plastic sided ones .. works fine..
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70767Oh my, what a mess! Well, at least you learned something new today! Something I would have tried, so thank-you, now I know not to do that! Carol
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by katydid
18 Oct 2010
I know this was stupid, but since they hold more thread than a regular bobbin, I thought I would try it. well the end popped off and flew into never- never land.
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