With all those dials and knobs on your serger and all the thread options available, balancing your serger thread tensions can be very intimidating.
Making a tension map can be very helpful. I could show you myself, but why recreate the wheel. Watch this video instead:
Just a few notes of my own:
1. I started with all my dials on a 4. Then I changed the first dial to a 0 and worked my way up. As I found each thread’s ideal tension, I adjusted the dial to that and move one to the next dial on the left.
2. I actually found that I needed to make a second set of tension maps for use when I use woolly nylon in the looper threads. I don’t know if youl’ll need to too.
Very neat! Now if I could just get the silly thing threaded right so the thread doesn’t break I would be fixed up.
I know this is an old post but it’s super helpful. I have the same serger and have been having such a hard time with tension, especially with wooly nylon. I’m going to try this tonight and see if I can figure it out. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for posting this! Very very helpful