Waxpaper may do it. Just slide some under the material. It helps to lubricate the needle. Aaron Sargent The Linen Barn linen@xxxxxxxxxxx Medford, Oregon ----- Original Message ----- From: <DLCompton@xxxxxxx> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [amayausers] Help--thread breaks with sticky backing In a message dated 3/31/2004 8:16:29 AM Pacific Standard Time, linen@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > Make sure your presser foot is adjusted. Maybe try a material thickness of > 5 or 6. Are you using the same thread as on the caps? > My presser foot is 1 click up from bottom. I've actually gone down in material thickness (to 3). I'm now somewhat wrapping the sticky backing on the top of the fast frame. I also changed to new needles (75/11 sharps). Still going at 850 (I may try faster soon). I adjusted the needles slightly to make sure the eye is straight on (I could never tell 5* to the right and straight seems to work). I am getting less breaks (maybe only 1 or 2 per patch). Same thread as for the caps (ARC poly). Alicia wrote: <<It's not you or the machine. It is the sticky backing. We had a few hundred backs of hats we were sewing and the needle & the thread got caught up on the sticky backing and kept backing . We kept the sticky backing on the fast frame and cut a whole in it where the emb. was going & we just used regular backing underneath. The sticky backing held the hats on the fast frame. The backing is a waste of time and money. Try hooping tear away and spraying maderia spray adhesive on the backing to hold down the patch while you sew. That works for us all the time.>> I would try spray but everytime I use spray adhesive it gets junk in my bobbin casing and causes problems too. Somewhere I saw someone using wax paper for something but I can't remember for what....could that help? I do know that the sticky paper is getting junk on my needle (clogging the eye). Any other suggestions? Dorothy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: amayausers-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: amayausers-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx