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Tension Spring Question: Singer 237/221 etc.

lazy_gardens
11 years ago

I bought a Singer Fashion Mate 237 (zigzag/straight stitch utility machine) Tension unit was apparently taken apart and assembled wrong, but all the parts were there.

I put it back together correctly, but it has one problem: The thin spring that the thread loops over in the upper tension unit is, for lack of a better word, "Floppy". It doesn't spring back against the thread at all.

It doesn't appear to be damaged or bent, and I doubt it's worn out because I have had far older machines with the same part that

Can it be tightened?

Is there a trick to installing it?

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