This message was posted by Rod or Sharon 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/ultimatebb.php?/topic/2/946.html#000003 Did you try to sew the Ampass test design. Did you try to sew the Amtrim test design? If you have the machine setting at default and the presser foot down where it should be, your needles properly oriented with NO burrs on them, your hook timing set correctly, your retaining support finger gapped properly, your bobbin tension set correctly, your test material hooped taut (three pieces of CUT-A-WAY backing works very well)....using poly thread....not rayon....no thread bound up in the threadfeed gears or elsewhere and the machine WELL lubricated....all this and more......the Amtrim and Ampass will tell you whether it is a design problem or a machine problem. If it will sew these but not other designs.....wel-l-l-l--then we need to start looking elsewhere. Rod Springer Amaya Tech & Trainer =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================