[amayausers] Re: Presser foot adjustment
- From: "Body Cover" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:56:24 -0700
Sounds like a bobbin loosening up to me.
You might try switching bobbin cases from a good machine
to a bad one and see if the problem goes away.
Just a thought.
Ron Vinyard
Body Cover / Magic Stitches
1-888-435-0176
541-471-1504 Fax 541-471-0427
420 SW H Street, Grants Pass, OR 97526-2532
info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.bodycoverdesign.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Rotter" <tsiemb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:45 AM
Subject: [amayausers] Presser foot adjustment
>I need some advice. I am sewing a tech jacket (it looks like a knit but
> it isn't very stretchy, it might have neoprene underneath) from Ash City
> that has no nap on the top but has a light microfleece lining inside. I
> am sewing a jacket back with metallic thread from ARC. One piece of
> heavy cutaway, 75/11 sharp needle. The stitches are all satin stitches
> with density of 4.0 and a zigzag underlay. I digitized this myself using
> the "convert to stitches" feature using a clean vector file from Corel
> Draw. Most of them have sewn ok, but I have had about 5 of the 34 sewing
> with loopy and loose stitches. From the back the bobbin looks too tight.
> I first took off Actifed and went to a 7 material thickness, worked for
> a while then loops started again. About two machines are sewing the file
> great, the other 5 machines, not so great. I can't figure out why the
> two are sewing so nicely. All settings seem to be the same with these
> two and the other 5
>
> What presser foot setting would you sew? How about bobbin tension? The
> reason I turned off actifeed was that one of my new 2005 XTs was sewing
> the metallic thread at a 2. That did not seem right. Any help is
> appreciated.
>
> cr
>
> Cheryl Rotter
> Team Sports Ink
> 5111 Grumann Dr. Ste #1B
> Carson City, NV 89706
> 775-884-3550
>
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