Yes, just e-mail amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx to send messages to the AMAYA
group.
Aaron Sargent
The Linen Barn
linen@xxxxxxxxxxx
Medford, Oregon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Zellman" <mrstitch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 7:47 AM
Subject: [amayausers] Re: EMC 10T
Thanks Aaron.
Can I post question for the Amaya through my email account (outlook) rather than login in to the freelist.org site?
Thanks again.
Dean Zellman Mr. Stitch Embroidery
-----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Linen Barn Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 6:59 AM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Re: EMC 10T
Dean,
Its not specifically for EMC's but the embroidery line at www.embroideryline.net is a group who have every machine you can imagine, you might look into it as well. Not sure if they have a group just for EMC's though.
Aaron Sargent
The Linen Barn
linen@xxxxxxxxxxx
Medford, Oregon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Zellman" <mrstitch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:51 PM
Subject: [amayausers] EMC 10T
I'm new to this forum as I plan to purchase an Amaya next month. I currently use an EMC 10T. Is there be a forum for this machine too?
Thanks
Dean Mr. Stitch Embroidery
-----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rod or Sharon Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:09 PM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Re: Needle rotation???
Ed mentioned somrthing sometime back that still seems to be just amazing. While the Amaya is sewing and a stitch is being formed, a given piece of
thread will pass " back and forth" through the eye of the needle approximately " 40 times " before it is acually laid down on the garment!!!!!!
Now if that thread is placed in an extra bind because the needle is cocked to far off center...well.....just one more cause for a thread break to occur.
Rod
Embroidery Cottage Rod & Sharon Springer Melco Trained Amaya Tech/Trainer Design Shop Pro+ Digitizing
Boise, ID 83713 208-938-3038 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marty Bies" <mbies@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:45 PM Subject: [amayausers] Re: Needle rotation???
In training in Denver the instructor made it very clear that all machines leave the factory with the needles straight ahead. He also said that the test sewout is done with the needles straight ahead as well. He compared turning them to advancing the timing on your car for performance. You are changing the timing of the rotory hook to compensate for the thread twist and other factors as Ed mentioned below. We have gone back and forth and have not noticed much of a difference. I usually put them in straight.
Marty J2H Design Elk River, MN
-----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roland R. Irish III Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:33 PM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Re: Needle rotation???
Both the service tech that came here to test the machine, and John in New Jersey, showed us that 'straight' needle is not preferable-that they need the slight 'angle' or counterclockwise rotation. Wife agrees
with me that they both said FIFTEEN degrees but no one ever actually sat down and measured it...my eyeball says if 'straight' is 6:00, then
the angle they showed us (and we've used it for a year) is 5:00. Now that I know about what causes the 'tail' I'm going to watch out for over angle. Setting any of them straight is immediate thread breaks and unraveling, doesn't matter sharp or ball. Roland
From: "E. Orantes" <e3m@xxxxxxx> Reply-To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:23:45 -0500 To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [amayausers] Re: Needle rotation???
Roland, Wise men say, and this is for all embroidery machines, that the needle
should be installed in the needle clamp so that the eye of the needle
the needle eye.is straight front to back. It should be perpendicular to the rotary hook point as the hook spins around to grab the thread passing throughVery similar to the child riding the Merry Go Round horse reaching out
to grab the big brass ring as he/she goes around (something I once saw
in a 3D movie at Disney World). The only reason you would choose to rotate your needle so that the eye
of the needle would be offset by 5 degrees or so is to compensate for
thread that has entirely too many twists in it. Meaning that, as the
thread tends to relax from being pulled straight as the needle begins
it's upstroke, the thread would then twist slightly to the right (due
to the standard cone wrapping direction) behind the needle and just out of position to be caught by the rotary hook point. What you would
experience would be intermittent missed stitches and then possibly thread breaks due to an excess of top thread with no where to go, and
only on those needles with the twisty type thread. I was recently working with some rayon thread from Madeira that was more curly than not. Although everything was sewing fine so we left the needles in their original positions. You would never want to turn your needle to
the left unless your thread spool was wound backwards. (I have seen some out there). Also, I believe 5 degrees to the right is maximum that is recommended. Very slight indeed! Ed
Ed & Maralien Orantes E.M. Broidery 900 Terry Parkway, Ste. 200 New Orleans, La. 70056 504-EMBROID ery (504-362-7643)
-----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Roland R. Irish III Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 7:14 AM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Re: thread breaks - help
How about the angle the needle is 'turned' in the shaft? I've had the
same problem (and now pretty much refuse to embroider on 'teeshirt' material-just takes too much work) and after checking everything you mention, I find my wife (who does most of the setup) isn't turning a new needle to get the 15 degree or so angle counterclockwise. Also, a
that stops it!tendency to have the plate just a hair to the left of dead center. Once I reset the needle and set the plate back to the right, usuallyAnother similar problem was fixed when we started replacing the top rollers at the 2 million stitch mark-worst thread breaks were happening on the rollers with the most wear. Probably a combination of
all 3 things but changing it helped!
