The Sewing Place
For Sale & Wanted => For Sale, Wanted & Free to a good home => Topic started by: Surest1tch on May 21, 2018, 22:37:38 PM
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I ordered 4 x 10,000mt cones of what was advertised as white overlocker thread but it is in fact white industrial serger thread. My overlocker will not take it no matter what I do.
If anyone has an industrial serger and you want it, it's yours for the cost of the postage, it is heavy though.
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Given that 'overlocker' and 'serger' and generally interchangable (though according to Susan Huxley (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0875967191/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) only 5 thread machines which make the chain stitch plus 3 thread overlock are sergers) I can't see how serger thread wouldn't be useable on an overlocker - unless it's woolly nylon or similar; that wouldn't go through the needles, but should be OK in the loopers.
Do you have a link to the threads you bought?
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I know some machines are finicky about threads, but yours would seem to be a very picky eater. ><
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@BrendaP it looks to me like it's the kind of thread that they use to serge tights with, its nylon I think and has several strands put together to make a single thread. There's a big difference between an industrial serger and domestic overlocker.
I can't give you a link for it as I've had it about 6 months and can't remember where I got it from to be honest. I'll try get a photo of it later if it will show up what I mean.
P.S. I've just looked inside the cone and it's spun polyester.
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It sounds as though it's a type of 'woolly nylon'; or rather 'woolly polyester'. For use in the loopers rather than the needles.