White 1744 Sewing Machine Instruction Manual

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WHITE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
Record in space provided below the Serial No. and

Model No. of this appliance.
The Serial No. is located on Bed Plate.

The Model No. is located on Rating Plate.
Serial No.
Model No.
Retain these numbers for future reference.

CONTENTS
Name of Parts .
2 & 3
Accessories 4
Before sewing (Power supply and Sewing lamp) S
Winding the bobbin 6
Removing bobbin case and bobbin 7
Inserting bobbin into bobbin case 7
Inserting bobbin case into shuttle race 8
Threading upper thread & Twin needle threading 9
Drawing up bobbin thread 10
Changing sewing directions 10
Contr& dial & Adjusting thread tension 11&12
Regulating the presser foot pressure 13
Drop feed 13
changing needle 14
Fabric. Thread. Needle table 15
Sewing (pattern selector) and operation table 16
To start sewing . 17
To finish seam 18
Straight stitch. 19
Zigzag sewing 19
Overcasting 20
Stretch stitch 20
Blind stitch 21&22
Button sewing 23
Binding 23
Zipper sewing 24
Button hole sewing 25
Hemming 26
Twin Needle 27
Embroidery 27
Quilter 28
Seam guide. 28
Maintenance (CIening and oiling) 29
Checking Performance Problems WHAT TO DO 30

— 1—
NAME OF PARTS (FRONT VIEW)
1 Pattern selector dial 6 Sub-spool pins
2 Pressure regulator 7 Top cover
3 Take up lever 8 Zigzag width dial

4 Thread tension dial 9 Stitch length dial
5 Presser foot 10 Reverse button
Thread guide for upper threading
—2—
(REAR VIEW)
Bobbin winder spindle

Upper thread guide
Bobbin winder stopper
Stop clamp
Motion knob
Face cover
Hand wheel
Thumb screw
Needle plate
Needle clamp screw

Presser foot lever
— 3—
ACCESSOR I ES
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Bobbin Felt Zigzag foot Button hole foot
(On machine)
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Button hole cutter Screw driver Needle

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—4—
BEFORE SEWING
Connect light cord, motor

wire 2 plugs into power
supply separately.
1. Remove or install bulb from

Sewing lamp nside of face cover.
2. Open face cover in direction
of arrow.
3. Remove bulb by unscrewing
it counter clockwise.
4. Install a new bulb by screw
ing it in clockwise.
5. Use a screw type bulb with
120V/15W. (Max)
— 5—
WINDING THE BOBBIN
1. Release stop motion knob.

2. Thread as shown.
3. When bobbin is filled,
tighten stop motion knob.
Re!
5cm thread
Bobbing / Push bobbin winder spindle
winder in direction of arrow.
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When bobbin winding is com
pleted return spindle to
original position
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x. When bobbin winding is in

correct, release the screw of
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upper thread guide and ad
just up or down until bobbin
winding is balanced.
—6—
REMOVING BOBBIN CASE AND BOBBIN
Hinged
1. Raise needle to its highest 2. Open hinged latch of

position and open the bobbin case and pull bob
shuttle race cover. bin case out of machine.
3. Release the latch and bob

bin will fall out easily.
INSERTING BOBBIN INTO BOBBIN CASE
1. Pull off 5cm of thread 2 Guide the nd & th ead

from bobbin ad insert it into sI
no bobbin case as sho n,
Tension spring
3. Pull into slot and under

tension spring and draw
out about 10 cm of
thread.
—7—
TLE RACE
INSERTING BOBBIN CASE INTO SHUT
Hinged latch
position, pulling
1. Raise needle to its highest
latch of bobbn
thread to the front, open the
case and hold it.
(nsert
2. Holding latch open, place bobbin case onto

centre pin in shuttle and release latch
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THREADING UPPER THREAD
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—9—
DRAWING UP BOBBIN THREAD

1. Hold upper thread with left
hand, turn the hand wheel
slowly towards you until the
needle goes down and comes
up. Then stop the hand
wheel when the takeup lever
is at its highest position.
Lightly draw up the upper
thread will be brought up in a
loop.
2. Pull out both threads and

place them together under
presser foot to the rear of
machine.
CHANGING SEWING DIRECTIONS
foot and
1. Lower needle down into fabric
and 2. Put down presser
raise presser foot, pivot the fabric start to sew.
around the needle to change direction
as desired.
—10 —
CONTROL DIAL
1. Pattern selector dial

2. Thread tension dial
3- Zig-zag width dial
4 Stitch length dial
5. Reverse button
—11—
ADJUSTING THREAD TENSION

Correct
Upper thread
(4r’1 Fabric
Weak Strong
Bobbin thread
Upper thread tension

may be adjusted by
turning the thread
tension diaL
Incorrect
Inside of fabric
Upper thread
Lower thread tension can

be adjusted by turning
screw on bobbin case
slightly to the right
(clock-wise) to increase
tension (Anti-clockwise)
to the left to decrease
tension
—12 —
REGULATING THE PRESSER FOOT PRESSURE
1. Push down inner pin (A) to increase pressure.

(Light to medium fabrics).
2. Push down outer ring to release pressure. (Heavy
fabrics)
3. Insufficient pressure may cause poor feeding,
skipped stitches, or difficulty in guiding the fabric.
4. No pressure adjustment is required when darn
ing or sewing embroidery.
DROP FEED
of fabric by your
There are a few times when you want to control the feeding
self.
daring plate
Raise needle bar to its highest position and raise presser foot, place
pins of darning plate with holes of needle plate.
over needle plate aligning two
movement of the fabric by yourself. See page 20
You may then determine the
for button sewing application — 13 —
CHANGING NEEDLE
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1, Raise needle to its highest position.
2, Loosen neec1e clamp screw and remove old needle.

from you,
3. With the flat side of the needle facing away
insert needle as tar up as it will go.
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4. Tighten the needle clamp screw securely.

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—14 —
FABRIC THREAD NEEDLE TABLE

Please note that the following list is a guide when sewing different fabrics.
Lenqth of lndca
\ Pressure of stitches
Fabnc Thread Needle presser foot tionof
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‘-‘ tension
\ Stitch length
\ Pressure
regulation dial
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Lght Nylon 80 Cotton
Tricot 60 S. Fiber 9
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JEN Silk 5Osk
iber
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Wool silk
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Medium 6080
Gingham Cotton 1114
053054
Gabardine 5OSilk
Heavy Denim 50 cotton 1416
0.530.5—4
Jersey SOS. Fiber 1114
i Tweed 5OSilk 1114
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TO START SEWING
Important Hints.
stopping
1. Raise the take-up lever to its highest position when starting and
sewing.
first two to
2. Hold both threads about 10 cms to the rear of machine for the
three stitches.
presser foot.
3. Sufficient fabric should be placed under needle before lowering
4. Depress foot/Speed control and start to sew.
adjusting the
5. Test the machine stitches on a scrap of fabric you plan to use,
machine for the length of stitch and tension suitable to your fabric.
Attenttion.
1, When turning the hand wheel manually, always turn it toward you.
2. Guide the cloth gently with your hand.
3. To prevent breaking needle always stop with the needle out of the fabric.
—17 —
TO FINISH SEAM
.
1. Sew to the edge of seam
butto n and sew n reverse
2. Push the reverse
for about 3—4 cms.
position,
3. Rase needle to its hghest
and pull out the fabric to
4. Lift presser foot
rear of mochne.
on the thread cutter.

5, Cut threads as shown
— 18 —
STRAIGHT STITCH
1. This type of stitching is the one used most frequently.

and zig-zag sewing.
2. The zig-zag presser foot can be used for both straight
left needle position.
3. For sewing light fabric, use smaller stitch size and
(Refer to page 15 for dial setting).
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Satin stitching can be used for sewing initials,

patterns, applique, etc.
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OVERCAST
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overseWing rough
Use these stitches for
edges.
STRAIGHT STRETCH STITCH
III
III
or
Use this stitch with knitted, tricot
other stretchy fabncs.
stretch
The stitch enables your seam to
without breaking the thread.
stitch for
It is also a very strong straight
areas under stress.
— 20—
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BLIND STITCH
1. Fold fabric as shown.
2. To finish seam as shown.
—21—
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Adjust width and needle position

to obtain correct seam.
Needle is not piercing Needle is pierces edge

edge of fold at all. of fold too much.
(A)
Correct seam
Liii (B)
—22 —
BUTTON SEWING
(Use darning plate see page 11)

1. Lower drop feed.
2. Use button presser foot and attach firmly.
fabric and lower presser foot.
3. Place button between presser foot and
4. Manually turn hand wheel towards you ensuring that the needle enters
into both holes of button without obstruction.
(Increase or decrease width setting).
5. Sew about 7 stitches.
6. Pull both threads to the underside and tie together.
BINDING
To sew fabrics edge to edge select

the multi zig-zag stitch.
23 —
ZIPPER SEWING
Select straight stitch.
and
1. Fold the fabric about 2cm
place fabric under foot.
close
2. Zipper foot is designed to sew
preventing sewing
to a raised edge
on zipper.
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1. To sew the left side of the zipper,
set the zipper foot on the left side
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of the needle.
2. To sew the right side of the
zipper bring the foot to the right
side of the needle.
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— 24—
BUTTON HOLE SEWING
Select stitch length dial in area indicated.
[ Pattern Steps Settings

selector dial
[ 1. Set dial to “1” position.

2. Sew left side.
E 3. Raise the needle
4, Set dial to “2” position.

5. Sew 56 stitches.
6. Raise the needle
7. Set dial to “3” position.

8. Sew right side.
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9. Raise the needle
10. Set dial to “4” position.

I 11. Sew 56 stitches.
12. Raise the needle
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Before sewing fit button-hole foot

as shown.
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Cut buttonhole along centre with
cutter as shown.
— 25 —
HEMMING
1. Raise the foo

hemmer foot.
2. Fold over the
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fab
folded edge with a

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nee
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dle to its highest pos
by
stit
about 3mm and plac
che s.
ition. Replace the foo
e it under the foot.
Take out the workpiec

eads.
t with the
Secure the
e and draw the hm
t by pulling the thr

into the hemmer foo
sew the hem.

3. Lower the foot and little and allow it to run
into the
the fabric to the left a
4. Durning sewing, fold
hemmer foot. of the foot. The
fab ric doe s not move under the right half
5. Make sure that the r sufficiently so that the
work
mu st be fed int o the scroll of the hemme
fabric
er the foot.
through the groove und
piece edge runs freely
eive
may be necessary to ach
mater ials can be used and some practice
Only suitable
best results.
— 26 -
TWIN NEEDLE
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ads through the sam
hin e as for nor mal sewing passing both thre
Thread mac
procedure: th, exceeding this
th sho uld not exc eed the third widest stitch wid
N8. Sewing wid
,
will result in breaking of needles
EMBROIDERY
1
(Use darning plate see page 1) ired effect.
and mo ve hoo ped fabric slowly to form the des
Lower feed dog
— 27 —
QUILTER
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of quilter.
1. Insert supporter ce.
d adjust stitch distan
2. Move quilter an
SEAM GUIDE
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g seam of regula
sea m gu ide when sewing a lon
1. Us e ,
edge of material
distance from right of needle pla
te,
at
Se t gu ide in hole on bed,
2.
tance.
and adjust dis material toLching
ma ch ine with edge of
3. Ru n angle to ew a
cloth guide at an
guide. Position
curved seam.
—28--
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MAINTENANCE (CLEANING AND OILIN
1. Raise needle to its highest position.

2. Take out bobbin case.
3. Turn latch knob A as illustrated.
4. Take off shuttle race cover.
5. Take out shuttle hook.
A hook,
6. Clean and oil shuttle race and
then replace in the reverse order.
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Cleaning shuttle race
(A) Latch knob
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(B) Shuttle race cover
(C) Shuttle hook
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Open top cover and oil points indicated.
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Open face cover and oil points
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Cleaning feed dog

Oil points indicated on underside of bed base.
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PROBLEMS WHAT TO DO
CHECKING PERFORMANCE
CORRECTION
PROBLEM PROBABLE CAUSE
— Rase feed dog.
— Feed dog down. Moving stop moton.
— Machine not moving.
Fabric fliDt — Mov ng dial to 1-4
ition. t.
-- Stitch length dial in 0 pos
moving - Increase piessure on p s er foo
pre sser foot.
— Light pressure on
nee dle. Reset needle.
-- Incorrect setting of Replace new needle
Needle bent Do not pull fab ic.
Breaking Needle — Pullinj fabric and fabr c.
and abric__- Correct using needle thread,
Incorrect using needle, thread
— Moving to correct positiol.
dial.
- Incorrect position of zigzag width — Rethrea machine.
— Improper thre adin g ion.
Loosen upper thread tens
— Tight upper thread tension
Breaking Upper -- Replace new eedle.
Thread — Needle bent. off burrs
— Replace shuttle o p01 sh
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0 Nicks or burrs on shuttle comp etely
Loosen bobb n thread tension

— Tight bobbin thread ten on Reset needle.
—- Incorrect setting of need e,
Breadkin Bobbin -
Rethread mach ne.
— Improper threading.
Th ead — Clean shuttle.
— Dust and thread n shuttle
Need o I
— No oil - Clean shuttle
Machine Jamming
- Dust and thread in shuttle
Knocking Noise
- Reset.
— Tension too tight. ssure.
- Regulatin sewing foot pre
— Sewing foot pressure too strong. needle and thread.
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Puckering thread. Correct using fabric,
- Incorrec usng fab ic needle, and

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WHITE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY

Record in space provided below the Serial No. and

The Serial No. is located on Bed Plate.

Retain these numbers for future reference.

Checking Performance Problems WHAT TO DO 30

1 Pattern selector dial 6 Sub-spool pins

2 Pressure regulator 7 Top cover

3 Take up lever 8 Zigzag width dial

Thread guide for upper threading

Bobbin winder spindle

Needle clamp screw

Button hole cutter Screw driver Needle

Connect light cord, motor

1. Remove or install bulb from

WINDING THE BOBBIN

1. Release stop motion knob.

x. When bobbin winding is in

REMOVING BOBBIN CASE AND BOBBIN

1. Raise needle to its highest 2. Open hinged latch of

3. Release the latch and bob

INSERTING BOBBIN INTO BOBBIN CASE

1. Pull off 5cm of thread 2 Guide the nd & th ead

3. Pull into slot and under

2. Holding latch open, place bobbin case onto

THREADING UPPER THREAD

Twin need’e threadn9

DRAWING UP BOBBIN THREAD

2. Pull out both threads and

CHANGING SEWING DIRECTIONS

1. Pattern selector dial

ADJUSTING THREAD TENSION

Upper thread tension

Lower thread tension can

REGULATING THE PRESSER FOOT PRESSURE

1. Push down inner pin (A) to increase pressure.

2, Loosen neec1e clamp screw and remove old needle.

4. Tighten the needle clamp screw securely.

FABRIC THREAD NEEDLE TABLE

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on the thread cutter.

1. This type of stitching is the one used most frequently.

Satin stitching can be used for sewing initials,

STRAIGHT STRETCH STITCH

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1. Fold fabric as shown.

2. To finish seam as shown.

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Adjust width and needle position

Needle is not piercing Needle is pierces edge

(Use darning plate see page 11)

To sew fabrics edge to edge select

Select straight stitch.

BUTTON HOLE SEWING

Select stitch length dial in area indicated.

[ Pattern Steps Settings

[ 1. Set dial to “1” position.

4, Set dial to “2” position.

7. Set dial to “3” position.

10. Set dial to “4” position.

Before sewing fit button-hole foot

1. Raise the foo

folded edge with a