This message was posted by YDCustom on AmayaUsers.com. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY VIA EMAIL. Instead, respond to the thread on the WEBSITE by clicking here: http://www.amayausers.com/boards/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/topic/1/913.html First, I am so glad I have found this forum. I have been using Amayas for the last month with no previous commercial experience and while I've had some training there is still a lot I don't know or understand. I'm having three perhaps related problems: 1) We have frequent thread breaks. This is in part due to the fact that we are using 100% cotton thread (and I'm in the process of replacing that, but I'm stuck with it til the end of the month). BUT I can run several copies of the same design and same thread without a problem and then we start getting thread breaks all over the place. I've replaced needles, changed which needle I was sewing on (as some seem to be worse than others) and changed bobbins. Anything else to try? 2) Yesterday, my XT started skipping a lot of stitches. It would go along doing satin stitch and then suddenly jump half an inch down the design, do a couple of stitches, jump again and then we'd have a thread break, bobbin break or get a big old tangle mess on the back of the work. What the heck? I'm not even sure where to begin troubleshooting that! 3) A bit after that, the left side of my satin stitch stopped catching the bobbin thread. So I had a line of teensy straight stitches at the right hand side of the design and nothing on the left. Ideas? Do I just need to call a tech? =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================