[amayausers] Re: Not picking up bobbin thread, breaking needles

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Good morning.  I have three very strange-sounding suggestions.

A) - Wipe the inside of your bobbin case and the inside of the bobbin area on 
the machine with a fabric softener sheet.  I get static in there sometimes and 
the thread sticks to the machine and doesn't catch.

B) - Check the pigtail on your bobbin case.  I was having no end of problems 
with one bobbin case.  In comparing it to the other two I have, I found that 
somehow the pigtail was shortened and misshaped...must have been my fabulous 
fingers dropping it sometime.

C) - Check your bobbin.  I can't get my XT to run a cardboard sided bobbin to 
save my neck.  Sideless is marginally better, but to make it work I have to run 
plastic sided NEBs.

These are my non technical things that I have done.  Time for the tech guys to 
chime in.  The clunk and the needle break sounds like it's hitting something 
metal - maybe a part of a previously broken needle is hiding in there somewhere 
just to vex you, or a big ball of thread is wreaking havoc, or the timing is 
off, or the needlecase isn't aligning exactly right, or the moon is in the 7th 
house.....

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