Some screws are turned by hand, others lost their head, and one looks like a sea monster. It might be time you read up on ...

The top thread will have a tension selector—often a knob on the front of the machine. The bobbin thread’s tension is usually adjusted with a screw on the bobbin case (righty-tighty, lefty-loosey).

Last year, we saw [How To Make Everything’s] take on [DaVinci’s] machine for cutting threads. However, they stopped short of the goal, which was making accurate metal screw threads. After much ...

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The top thread will have a tension selector—often a knob on the front of the machine. The bobbin thread’s tension is usually adjusted with a screw on the bobbin case (righty-tighty, lefty-loosey).

What I found works best is exactly this. Depending on the printer tolerance make a hole between 0.05mm – 0.2mm smaller than the diameter of the screw and self tap with machine screws.