Steve, Another good reason to have 16 needles on your machine. You could configure your needles in any combination that you see fit depending on the type of sewing you see more of. Possibly 10 of your needles could be ball point and 6 of your needles could be sharp. Sew on a baby bib or terry cloth towel, use the ball points. Sew on a baseball cap or woman's purse, use the sharp needles. You could possibly find yourself with two spools of each - black, white, etc... thread on the machine at the same time. What ever works best for you at your shop. Ed -----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steve Cohen Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 6:52 PM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Re: Best speed for WACF I agree with Jeff. I never use ball point needles on caps. I have always used a 75/11 sharp needle for all caps. Rarely a needle break from the cap. I know it's a pain to change a bunch of needles for caps then change them all back again after the doing caps but I try to save all my caps to run at once since I already have the needle in. A lot of embroiderers that have multiple machines usually keep one machine for just caps and the others for flat goods. From: "Cheryl Rotter" <tsiemb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:03:18 -0800 LuAnn, For hats I can run certain designs on my one year old AMAYA at 950. The newer ones can run at over 1000, I am getting 4 of those delivered next week. For me, it just depends on the design and the hat style. And the hat design will run better if it has been edited from a flat to a specific hat design. Melco techs in Denver also told me to use a ball point needle on my hats.