I had real similar issues with my hand-me-down injector. I changed needles (70/10), and got some higher quality polyester thread. With the new thread I checked the bobbin tension & it was ok (it was too high with the cheapo all-purpose cotton thread). I also found some thread snippets under the tension plate that I cleaned out. It fixed all the problems (looping on bottom, bottom thread pulling up, etc.)
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