[amayausers] Re: Thread Breaks
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- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 19:58:23 UT
Hi,
New to Embroidery. We have two Amaya XT machines that are two weeks old.
We get thread breaks constantly. On a 1000 stitch design we might get one
break sometimes. On an 8000 stick name maybe 6. Most of the time we can run a
small monogram with one letter and get no breaks. Sometimes if we are lucky we
can get a monogram on a towel to sew with only one break on a small 3000 - 4000
stich monogram. Sometime we can make it with no breaks.
The problem seems to happen most of the time when the machine cuts or switches
thread colors.
Sometimes (about 3 times on a five letter name)the Amaya tries to cut the
thread but nothing happens and it move to another letter and leaves a long
piece of thread across the name or monogram. Other times it does cut the
thread, but when it does the 3 or 4 slow stitch to start up again the bobbin
does not catch and the thread comes out of the needle. That seems to happen
about (2-5 times on a five letter name). It also tosses in a bobbin break
about every other design or sometime 2-3 times during a design and the bobbin
is not broken.
So needless to say a short sew out takes us a long time.
But maybe two times I ran a shirt logo of 8,000 stitches with 10 colors and it
worked from beginning to end.
Materials we use:
We are doing Monograms and names on Towels and Tote Bags.
We also did some polo shirts for ourselves.
Issue seems to happen on all materials, sometimes we get lucky, sometimes we
don't.
Main issue is bobbin not catching and seems to happen after a cut or attempted
cut, causing a top thread break or thread to just pull out of the needle. If
you sew a single one letter monogram (1500 stitches) one color, no cutting the
thread, It works great.
Thread is new, needles are new, machine is new, etc. We have two machines and
same issue.
We are sewing about 2" letters on towels, so no complex designs, just using
Melco fonts. We use tear away backing 2 2.0 oz pieces and the Salvie stuff
that I can't spell, on the towels. We use Acti feed on towels of 9.
Tote bags work great, no backing no Salvie, we sew one letter in one color,
takes under 2 mins, actifeed at 5-6 works almost every time.
Shirts and practice shirts, most have lots of issues, ajust the pressure foot
to 2-3 clicks from the bottom position, actifeed have tried 3-8 just to see
what happens. Sometimes it runs great others it drives me crazy, same type
material, same design.
Is it possible to get the machine to run with less miss cutting, less fake
bobbin break errors, and less top thread breaks?
In class we had 5-6 machines there and they would also do this (thread breaks,
bobbin breaks) Out of the four days in class it was rare to see a machine run
without at least one thread break on a 3000-6000 stitch class project.
Right now if I run both machines at the same time, buy the time I fix a thread
break on one machine I have to move my chair over to the other one to fix it, I
don't think I have had both running at the same time for more than 1 min.
before one has a thread or bobbin break.
It would be nice if you could run some standard test material with standard
settings to see if that works and trouble shot from there. I know there is
some setup test design. Should that run 100% with no breaks? I guess I am
looking for a way to see if I can get the machine set. If you run material X,
actifeed at 5, this type needle, and this 10,000 stitch design at 1,000
stitches per minute you should get only one thread break.
Thanks,
Steve
Atlanta GA
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