[amayausers] Re: bobbin not picking up

oops forgot to insert into my post the number of
stitches my bobbin is set at--it is set at 25,000. 
Couldn't check before because my machine was stitching
but it just stopped for a false bobbin break now.

Susan

--- suried@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> So let's go forth and embrace 2006 with a "never say
> > die" attitude and
> > welcome aboard all of our new list participants
> who
> > will undoubtedly ask...
> "I seem to be having a few too many thread breaks,
> > can anyone help?"
> >
>
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> Yes, Ed this is me.  And now for another one of
> those
> questions.  I have an XT and 
> I have been having trouble with the bobbin thread
> being engaged at the beginnning of a color change
> for
> a while now.  I initially increased my slow stitches
> and put it at 8.  That seemed to do the trick for a
> while.  Then I started having trouble again.  I
> loosened the tension on my bobbin slightly--but not
> very much because before I was having trouble with
> false bobbin breaks, which if I'm right is due to
> too
> high of MT and/or too loose of bobbin tension.  That
> seemed to do the trick for a while too.  Then
> tonight
> I had more sporadic episodes of the bobbin thread
> just
> not wanting to pick up at all.  I decreased my MT
> just
> for the bobbin pick up and than increased it right
> away for the sewout when this happened.  This seems
> to
> do the trick.  But I don't want to constantly or
> sporadically be changing the MT back and forth for
> each color change.  Any ideas of what is happening
> or
> what I am doing wrong???
> 
> Also, my bobbin enabled to tell me to replace my
> bobbin after 
> stitches.  I don't think this can be right because
> when the message pops up I don't think even half my
> bobbin thread is gone.  Previously I wasn't paying
> attention to this message because I didn't want to
> waste bobbin thread.  But I decided maybe I would
> have
> less trouble if I replace my bobbin before it was
> all
> used up.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help I get.
> 
> Susan
> 
> 
> > 
> 
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