Needle Head Won't engage afte hitting the hoop

[Jason Salamone]

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!

[ftembroidery]

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".

[aauusa]

Broken recpricator for sure

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

[lyn66]

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

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[KevinO]

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.