Your Baby Lock will operate at best performance if it is kept clean at all times. The serger's cutting action cre-
ates much more lint than you will find on conventional sewing machine.
Your serger's major moving parts are well protected and do not need to be oiled.
However, we recommend to use the cleaning brush often during garment construction in order to keep lint off
the blades, the needle bar, the feed dog mechanism and loopers. If machine needs to be oiled, check with your
nearest Baby Lock retailer for use of high grade recommended sewing machine oil.
TO REMOVE NEEDLE PLATE PROCEED AS FOLLOW:
1. For safety reasons, unplug main power cord.
2. Raise and remove presser foot.
3. Select stitch length dial to rolled hem setting.
4. Remove needles from needle clamp.
5. For easy access to the needle plate lock pin set screw, lower needle clamp to its lowest position. (fig. A).
6. Place allen screwdriver (1.5mm) into allen screw and loosen needle plate pin holder screw. (See fig. B for
location of screw.)
7. Remove needle plate lock pin (fig B) and remove needle plate front screw. (See arrow in fig B).
8. Open left side cover of machine and remove needle plate.
9. Clean machine. (fig C)
10. Place needle plate onto machine and insert needle plate lock pin.
11. Tighten allen screw needle plate lock pin and check and make sure that top needle plate lock pin is flush
with needle plate.
12. Place needle plate front screw and tighten screw.
Note:
For better stitch performance, make sure needle C-1.C-2,and C-3 do not touch either side of needle plate
hole.
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