[amayausers] Re: Questions about rollers

Denise...we are not doing near the volume you are...sometimes the Amaya sits
there for weeks collecting dust. But we had a pile of jackets to do, and
sweatshirts-using the same 4-5 colors and 4-5 needles for 70,000 stitches
per design. Had the needles getting 'hung up' and jamming, all kinds of
noise....Dick (the tech out of Vermont) diagnosed it over the phone-and the
problem was the 'oil pads' were drying out from the heat generated by the
same needles, side by side, going non stop. Simple remedy....we no longer
keep the 'same basic colors' on the same needles (used to by 1,2,3,4, etc.
for white, black, red, blue, gold) now after every job, we MOVE the colors
to different needles, and on a large stitch count design, we do NOT have the
colors next to each other-stagger them on alternate needles and OIL the
shafts more frequently!
I'm worried you might run into the same problem-nasty ugle 'noise' from the
Amaya and then suddenly you have needles stuck 'up' and won't come
down....this will be the cause!
And I agree with others, it sounds like you are changing rollers too often!
We wait until 1) thread breaks or looping constantly, or 2) at a 'major'
maintenance point we can 'feel' a groove with a finger nail. Otherwise we
leave them alone. Yes, it is one of the first things we check when problems
occur, but we also noticed the 'white dust' or shiny mark and realized that
was just the thread-not a groove.
Roland

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