"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
Excellent. Yeah I don't intend on doing my own digitizing unless it's simple text and I feel confident. I'm just trying to learn the ins and outs of this machine via some files that exist and settings within this software.Got new thread, new bobbins, new needles and it's still breaking thread.So when I get to the shop today I'm going to pull the cover and follow coldesi's hook timing PDF as well as checking for burrs on the hook itself. Tensions have been played with across the board to no avail, so I think there's something else going on. It's not breaking the needles just fraying the thread after a few stitches and doesn't catch the bobbin thread consistently.What speed do you all run your machines? This one looks to have been run at 850 stitches per minute. Just wondering what the norm is once it is finely tuned!
so you guys like rayon over poly? I have nothing but poly, I was told to not use rayon because the color washes out and it's more prone to thread breaks?! I'm using Madiera polyneon. . .
Correct, most poly now is made to sew and look more like rayon. It's low elongation and has a higher tensile strength, but for some reason it loops like a son of a gun. Also, it runs on a different tension than poly, so if you are like us and have both threads, you have to change your tension to make it sew better.