Bob, 170 of the thread breaks were concentrated over 5 designs with lots of tiny detail that ran on heavy jackets badge fabric and caps. It is a new machine that is still being run in. The needles have to be adjusted etc. I havent even run all the needles on my machine yet. What machines do you use and How many heads do you have? What speed do you run at? I will put this on ELINE and WAIS Id love to know what answers we get. I will then repost those answers to this list Anand I personally would be very frustrated with only 8814 or 6800 stitches between thread breaks. I've never really kept track but I know that we would average well above 200,000 or more stitches between breaks [but we are not using an Amaya]. Bob Kesavan wrote: >2609090 Stitches since I bought the xt machine >296 Thread Breaks >2609090/296= One thread break every 8814 Stitches. >I have been using the machine for testing new designs as well which have had >a higher number of thread breaks till I fine tuned them. I have also run a >lot of caps badges and stock designs which have higher thread breaks. > >Anand > > >My experience is pretty much the same. I have run 3 machines since June >last year. (2 pre XT & 1 XT). I have changed digitizers, threads, >needles, bobbin styles and still cant manage to get better than an >average 6800 stitches between thread breaks. > >I would be interested to hear the average from other users > >Glenn >Global Embroidery & The Embroidery Shop >Melbourne Australia > > > > > >