Singer 457 - Adjusting for Your Fabric

STRAIGHT STITCHING (Continued)
Needle Bar
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Changing the Needle
ADJUSTING FOR YOUR FABRIC
As you get ready to sew, take ad-
vantage
of the flexibility of your
sewing
machine . With a choice of
needle sizes and
four easy-to-use
selectors for stitch length,
pressure,
feed height, and needle-thread
ten-
sion, you can adjust the machine
to
sew
perfectly- on a wide variety of
fabrics .
The table on page 15 will
guide you
in selecting the correct
thread and needle
sizes and stitch
length according
to the weight of
your fabric .
1 . Turn hand wheel toward you until
needle is at highest position .
2 . Loosen
needle-clamp screw and re-
move needle .
3 . Insert new needle
in clamp with
the flat side of the needle to
the
back, and the long groove
toward
you ;
push it up as far as it will
go .
4 .
Tighten needle clamp screw
.
This
machine uses needle
catalog
2020
(15x1) available in
sizes 9,
11,
14, 16 and 18 .