Hi Adam12, I am quite hopeless with pics but I will give it a go at some point, I read a reply you gave to another user sometime ago about missed stitches where you said to start with the basics thread path then this and that and today I have been through all of that with the help of an online manual( which was not too clear on some points )any way everything seemed to be as it should be, as for the threading I watched four videos and they were mostly the same so I have gone from spool to eyelet at the top of the stand then down to the post on top of the machine through the middle hole right to left then round the back and through the top hole back to front then down to the bar with three holes in and top hole right to left then middle hole left to right and bottom hole right to left(that was the only difference in the videos some wound round top to bottom hole) then round the tensioner and around the pin so nearly full circle then under the other tension and through the wire loop through the clip up to the eye right to left back through the clip down to the next clip and then the felt clip through the small clip on the needle bar and finally through the needle left to right, lower needle through foot hole and pull thread through, voila
I hope I have explained well enough for you to follow. Today I ran out of the thread that came with the machine so I wound a bobbin of the 20s thread and threaded the machine with this thread and tried another small amount of stitching, only one missed stitch, but I dont have the tension quite right as the knot is almost showing underneath, maybe just not enough material so to speak and could it be just lack of use as I am beginning to think maybe the previous guy didn't actually use it much, also his needles were R point, so I have decided to stay with his needle system 134-35 so I dont have to change the set up at the moment and I have purchased some 110/18 needles and some 40s thread, I have learnt that polyester thread is numbered v__ and nylon thread ??s and a 40s is similar to V69 (the 20s was similar to V138) so slowly making headway I hope. Thank you to all that read this and understand it.