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Embroidery => General Embroidery => Topic started by: Jason Salamone on September 07, 2016, 09:04:37 PM

Title: Needle Head Won't engage afte hitting the hoop
Post by: Jason Salamone on September 07, 2016, 09:04:37 PM

I have a tajima 4 head/15 needle machine and this morning I started to sew a design and for got to line it up. I hit the hoop with needle #1 and of course broke the needle and took a chunk out of the hoop. It hit it pretty hard. The weird thing is needle #2 will not engage now. It will not move up and down and just give me the thread break error message. any advice or solution would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Title: Re: Needle Head Won't engage afte hitting the hoop
Post by: ftembroidery on September 07, 2016, 09:18:41 PM

Do ANY of the needle bars engage?....sounds like you broke the reciprocator.  It's made of phenolic/plastic, etc. so as to be breakable and therefor "sacrificial".

Title: Re: Needle Head Won't engage afte hitting the hoop
Post by: aauusa on September 08, 2016, 06:26:16 AM

Broken recpricator for sure

Lots of videos on how to fix it and also contact Hersch they can give instructions as well

Title: Re: Needle Head Won't engage afte hitting the hoop
Post by: lyn66 on April 19, 2017, 03:22:20 PM

I did this on my tajima. Engineer came out and fitted a new one

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Title: Re: Needle Head Won't engage afte hitting the hoop
Post by: KevinO on April 19, 2017, 04:40:43 PM

Not sure if I should start a new thread, but thought since this is a similar subject I would throw it on here.

On one of our machines, we had hit a hoop as well. It didn't hit hard enough to break the reciprocator, but now when it runs it will stutter and then give a thread break sensor. I am wondering if maybe this is because the reciprocator is bent and not hitting correctly? Is there something as a reciprocator timing that could have been thrown off?

Sorry I am a screenprinter that recently got into embroidery last year and not sure of the in's and out's yet.