From The Workbench with Doug - How to Remove Thread from the Take-Up Lever on the Baby Lock Zest 

Thank you. I had a lot of thread breakage but finished the project. So now I can clean out that thread.

OMG!!!! I Googled "handwheel hard to move...thread disappeared!!" from my BabyLock Joy while i was sewing and a miracle happened, Doug!! I found your RU-vid video on this exact problem...your clear and simple instructions on how to fix this is what i did and after putting away my tweezers, oil can etc!!LOL My Joy is running again smoothly!! Thank you so much! It saved me a trip to Auburn to my trusty sewing machine fixer!! also a great guy! Thanks again!

Thank you so very much Doug!!!! You have saved my day from taking Crescendo in and paying for this correction.. The video was wonderful and I appreciate you, your calm manner, expertise and helpfulness!!!

Thank you for this video. My new Babylock Jazz 2 has been giving me fits. I see I can fix it and rethread it properly. Now that I know, I can go sew! It’s on my Cutie frame and they should do well together now.

Wow! Magnetize your screwdriver and first turn screw counterclockwise!!! Awesome!!!!

Thank you so much. Removing mine now! Dealer said “it could be tricky” and it’s totally not!

Thank you. This really helped me. I was stuck.

Thank you so much for this. I fudnt know sbout teverdin go handwheel. I have removed stuck thread with great difficulty and it took ages ❤

That was nice...and now i dont feel anxious...listening and learning calmed me down...so thank u

Wish I had seen this last week. I had that exact problem with my Brilliant....I finally got it out but not that easily!

I didn’t know that was how you could magnetize the tip of a screwdriver. Good to know! Thank you

super helpful when i needed to look at the top threading part for my Meridian! thank you for amazing videos!

Thanks! I haven't had this problem yet but it's great to know I have a good resource if it ever happens.

Thank you, Doug. We have 3 Baby Locks and you are always a source of good information. A Happy New Year to you.

Thank you so much! Clear and informative.

Thank you so much for all the tips you give. It sure helps.

You are so helpful! Thank you.

Great tips! I didn't think to turn the crank in the opposite direction, but it makes sense.

Thank you. Great video. I understood everything. I’m deaf, but I could see what you were doing and most of time read your lips.

not sure how this came up t me today, but hey I'm glad I watched as it doesn't much matter what brand of machine one has maintenance is very important. What I did learn anew is to rub my screwdriver with a magnet. I have a brother travel machine that has been in the closet for a year or better, because it was a thrift store buy and has never worked very smooth, but I didn't want to spend $$$ to have it serviced professionally, guess who's going to take that little girl for a looksee. Thanks

thanks Doug

Very informative! Thank you for making it understandable.

Great job! Thanks Doug.

Thank you for the great information it will help me out later on

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you! Could I do this with the Solaris too?

I have two questions would having the thread wrapped around make a difference in tension? And does taking off the cover invalidate the warranty? I have a Babylock soprano and have found it annoying with tension problems. It’s only eight months old.

Does this apply to combo machines like the Altair (computerized) - the oil I mean.

My thread wrapped around the lever on the right side from a shelf above the machine. I don’t know how to get it popped off to remove it.

can you show repairing the thread cutter?

Having that problem with my babylock melody. Help please

What if you can't see the thread tail anymore?

Some of the thread is stuck inside and I cannot take it out. Any advice? I tried removing as much as I could but I feel I only made things worse

At least with that machine you can get to it! I can't get to it on my ellegante 😢

The Baby Lock manuals eogh all my machines clearly state not to start taking your machine apart because if something goes wrong, your warranty id voided because you messed eith it yourself.

I thought you weren’t supposed to turn your wheel in the opposite direction?

I'm sorry but telling people to remove the cover isn't a great idea.and, eorse advising them to use 2 drops of oil goes againt everything Baby Lock advises its customers to do. We are warned time and again not to do open the nachine for any reason. And, especially not to try to oil it ourselves. 1 or 2 drops to you means make sure its really oiled to many people. If 1 drop is good, 10 drops will really get the oil in the machibe.