Equipment Manuals

Lost the manual for your sewing machine or perhaps you've bought a device second-hand without a manual? You can try the following:

• Find the website for the company that produced your item. Increasingly companies are making these available free of charge online.
• Try a search for the model of your device and run a search with the parameter filetype:pdf to see if anyone has uploaded one anywhere else on the web.
• Visit a manuals search engine (though these don't always seem to last long), such as The ManualsLib at www.manualslib.com/
• You could also try eBay as manuals do come up for auction quite often.

Phil Bradley in CILIP Update, July 2014