[amayausers] Re: thead breaks
- From: "pat" <post@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:45:31 -0400
Rod, Sharon -
I still can't believe that you can do that many stitches on a hat with an
Amaya!!!!
Pat Post
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod or Sharon" <springer37@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 6:03 PM
Subject: [amayausers] Re: thead breaks
> Roland,
>
> "black bobbin thread"........Sharon and I use Neb brand bobbins--the
> plastic sided ones and have "0" problems with them...white or black!!!
>
> I had to do a couple hundred caps with a 15000+ stitch edsign and used
> black bobbins with them and "0" bobbin thread break with any of
them.....top
> thread breaks here and there but no bobbin breads with Neb black/white
> bobbin thread.
>
> Rod
>
> Embroidery Cottage
> Rod & Sharon Springer
> Melco Trained Amaya Tech & Trainer
> Design Shop Pro+ Digitizing
>
> Boise, ID 83713
> 208-938-3038
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 3:18 PM
> Subject: [amayausers] Re: thead breaks
>
>
> > for what it's worth...
> > I found when things are really going bad:
> > check bobbin-too tight, stitches get too tight, start to break
> > too loose, thread gets loopy and looks terrible
> > crude under the tension bar, really doesn't help
> > black bobbin thread-shouldn't be on the market-anyone want a couple
> boxes?
> > if thread break continues-I look to see where it is happening-if on
> letter
> > 'corners-then I check and change autostitch or short stitch
> > if it is not that, then I increase material density 1 point at a time
> and
> > see what happens
> > increase backing-add another piece, or switch to cut away
> > solvy on top, definitely on pique
> > decrease speed
> > that's all I can tell you for now!
> > good luck...
> >
> >> From: "image embriodery" <imageembroidery@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Reply-To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:01:08 -0400
> >> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: [amayausers] Re: thead breaks
> >>
> >> So have you found the magic combination for Inner Harbor pique???
> >> I want to throw them out the window. Stitch out wonderful on scrap
> fabric.
> >> Stitch out is horrible on the shirt.
> >> T
> >> Help...thanks!
> >> LuAnn
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 4:09 PM
> >> Subject: [amayausers] Re: thead breaks
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hi Debra-another struggling beginner here...
> >>> we do a lot of pique knits because we screen print on them
> also-customers
> >>> like the 'heavier' look to the shirt.
> >>> And yes, we get the same problem-sewouts on one material don't work
a
> darn
> >>> on another!
> >>> We have managed to get by this way:
> >>> solvy, YES...it's a textured material-solvy helps
> >>> backing-two layers of the heaviest tear away, and sometimes if it is
a
> >>> logo
> >>> with design and lettering around that, I"ve had to use a thicker
> >>> cutaway-on
> >>> a thinner pique that seems to work. One way we figured out what to
do
> is
> >>> to
> >>> compare backings on shirts and sweats my wife collects out in
> >>> Arizona-every
> >>> trip she comes back with another one her mother buys here-so we
check
> to
> >>> see
> >>> how THOSE were done!
> >>> Thread breaks-still learning on this but getting better...
> >>> density 4 or higher, double check needle 'twist' (a debate last
couple
> >>> weeks
> >>> on how many 'degrees' of 'turn' to the needle-instead of 'straight'
> out)
> >>> presser foot-maximum down
> >>> short stitch on or off? Still figuring out that one-sometimes it
> helps,
> >>> sometimes it doesn't. Same with auto density....got to be a
'standard'
> in
> >>> there somewhere I haven't figured out.
> >>> Underlayment-center line...we learned at training to ALWAYS have
> >>> centerline
> >>> on, but an answer to a question I put up this morning for some real
> small
> >>> lettering said NO underlayment...but depends on material-worth doing
a
> >>> test
> >>> either way!
> >>> What we HAVE learned-is with rare exceptions-what sews out good on a
> >>> sweatshirt, won't work on a jacket, won't work on a pique, won't
work
> on a
> >>> hat. Each material has it's own quirks-so I end up with a separate
> >>> 'design'
> >>> for each one with the changes so I don't forget them!
> >>> Hope this helps....should be someone in here shortly with more
> technical
> >>> help.
> >>> I've started printing out questions and answers from here that I
need
> and
> >>> putting them in a notebook for quick reference. That way I can make
> notes
> >>> right on the page as I test it out!
> >>> Roland
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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