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Title: Stabilizing caps when embroidering them
Post by: ScreenPrinter123 on December 17, 2012, 09:04:19 PM
Anyone use any additional tools other than the cap attachments for stabilizing cap embroidering. Was doing caps today, structured and unstructured and registration was not holding true. Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Stabilizing caps when embroidering them
Post by: JBLUE on December 17, 2012, 10:04:21 PM
The bigest thing I have learned is we were not hooping them tight enough. We pull them now to where you think they are going to rip. That solved 99% of our reg issues. The other problem could be in the digitizing and the order it is sewing out. Got a pic?
Title: Re: Stabilizing caps when embroidering them
Post by: Gilligan on December 17, 2012, 10:41:21 PM
Better question, what do you change on a tajima to do hats.
Title: Re: Stabilizing caps when embroidering them
Post by: Screened Gear on December 18, 2012, 12:26:30 AM
This may help. Not sure what the black thing does but they do it on all the hats.

ASI Contract Embroidery Hat Hooping 101 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQM8Udi4-rk#)

Title: Re: Stabilizing caps when embroidering them
Post by: bj on December 19, 2012, 09:57:05 PM
Like JBlue said, it could be in the digitizing....is this something happening all the time or just on certain jobs?  Main thing to make sure it that the design is center out, bottom to top.   
Title: Re: Stabilizing caps when embroidering them
Post by: ScreenPrinter123 on December 19, 2012, 11:11:05 PM
Ended up being the digitizing.  Not sure what he changed, but it stopped after sending photos to our digitizer and him re-digitizing.  I can only guess he made it such that the underlay stitch was not as close to the satin stitches' edge, so any movement of the cap wouldn't be noticeable with the underlay shifting out from underneath the satin stitch.  But I'm no digitizer.

Title: Re: Stabilizing caps when embroidering them
Post by: JBLUE on December 20, 2012, 12:47:50 AM
There is a pretty darn good one that posted above you..... ;)
Title: Re: Stabilizing caps when embroidering them
Post by: mooseman on December 20, 2012, 11:21:39 AM
give this gal a try she is pretty good at such stuff
bjbabs24@yahoo.com ;)
Title: Re: Stabilizing caps when embroidering them
Post by: mk162 on December 20, 2012, 12:22:48 PM
if you need any help hooping, check this vid out...
http://www.viddler.com/v/9dd4888e (http://www.viddler.com/v/9dd4888e)
Title: Re: Stabilizing caps when embroidering them
Post by: Denis Kolar on December 20, 2012, 12:34:53 PM
WOW, that piece of "rubber" in interesting

Also, I tried Mooseman's idea about just taping a piece of "Hard Cardboard" (From ring binders) over the regular needle plate to mimic raised hat needle plate. That worked out well. You can see the difference with or without it.