Pretty much as soon as I brought home the Juki I noticed something was a little off about the presser foot.
It's got some wear and tear, and some pretty gnarly looking scratches and gouges, which is peculiar for something that, in theory, spends most of its life in contact with fabric.
But what really seemed off was this.
Presser feet aren't really supposed to be shaped that way. My guess is that someone got frustrated at trying to get the machine to feed over bulky sections of fabric and this was their solution.
Taking it off revealed that the underside was pretty worn and chewed up too.
Those chowder marks are what happens when you run the machine too much with no fabric under the foot.
Anyway, a new foot isn't too expensive, so let's swap one in.
This is what a proper presser foot is supposed to look like.
And no, I have no idea why the colour temperature went weird in this one photo.
The glam shot looks good, though.
Anyway, up next is the belt guard, the piece that's supposed to keep this bit of machinery from turning you into Astar.
The machine came with a belt guard, sort of, but the two pieces didn't really fit together properly.
The ample screw slots on the guard were not quite ample enough to reach the threaded inserts on the mounting bracket, and there was a little tab of metal on the guard that also interfered.
Well, that little tab of metal is easy enough to deal with.
And as for the screw alignment problem, that has solutions too.
This fits together much better now.
Just ignore that the screws are mismatched. It's fine, don't worry about it.
The important thing is that the belt is now guarded, and all my limbs are still safely attached.
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