Help Adidas Shirts

[Zeraq,LLC]

Having trouble sewing Addas ClimaCoolpolos.
The shirt is being cut by the embroidery. Have slowed to 800 and added 2 layers of Solvey and that has helped considerably but still not 100%. Any ideas?

[Judy]

Hi Bill. Have you tried a very small ball point needle?

Best luck,
Judy

[Zeraq,LLC]

I'm using 75-11 ball. Too big?

[Judy]

It couldn't hurt to try a smaller one, a 9 or 10 if you have one. Maybe you'll need to decrease the density if possible. You're trying to get it to slide inbetween the threads without breaking/cutting them.

HTH,
Judy

[Katman]

I sew a lot of these and all I use is a 75/11 bp. It could be the design.

[Zeraq,LLC]

Katman,

I am using 4 mil backing (cut away) with 2 layers of solvey at 800 stitches per minute and the 75/11 bp needles. It is is cutting the shirt slightly at the edge of some of the lettering and a tiny bit of the design. No problem on other material. I have also loosened up the hooping somewhat.Is this in line with what you are using on these shirts?

Thanks all for your help.

[Katman]

The backing is in line, but I dont use any solvy. Is this keyboard lettering? How tall is the lettering and what density? is it a new needle?

[Katman]

Also what material thickness are you using on the machine? Manual or auto thickness?

[Zeraq,LLC]

Yes on the lettering, just .35 micro block. It is doing it on 2 different needles, both nearly new. I am using auto thickness. Semms to stay mostly 2.

The problem occurs both on my block lettering and on the lettering that is in the digitized logo. On the last sewout it had a small section cut,about.020" in the block lettering and about .062" on the inside edge of a letter A that is in the design. Block lettering is at default density at 120% pull comp.

Again, thanks.

[Katman]

I run my on manual set at 7 or 8. 2 is way too low.

[Katman]

Also. I would set the lettering to about 4.7 density with a 25 center stitch underlay and maybe increase the pull comp to 120.

[Zeraq,LLC]

Arg, still problems. Tried all Katmans suggestions and still have the same situation although much improved. Now only getting one or two places where there are holes and they are much smaller about the .015". Any more ideas anyone?

[signman]

make sure 'short stitches' is OFF and set minimum stitch to 10 pts.
Sounds like your 'cutting' is more from too many stitches in one spot, like going around a corner-pulling the material in too tight.
Also, change density to 5-I've run 5.5 on some to get away from 'puckering' which can lead to 'cutting'.
No extra underlayment-the fewer stitches the better.
Let the font itself handle the underlay-don't add any extra.
See if Rod jumps in with hints for the small lettering-he helped me out last year.
Roland

[Zeraq,LLC]

Thanks everyone,

I have tried about all the suggestions and although the design looks good, I still have a couple of pin holes on each sewout. Possibly I am being too critical as it is no longer apparent until you pull lightly on the shirt. This fabric is all polyester with very small cells and I am thinking that maybe I am catching the corner of some of the cells and opening them up. I no longer seem to have a problem with the text part of the design.

I am not sure what to think as embroidery is new to me; I just don't want to deliver a substandard quality product, especially on this expensive a shirt.

I still haven't tried a smaller needle as I didn't have any and my instructor indicated that they were not needed. I'll try that next.

All coments appreciated.

[Steve]

It sounds like the way it is being hooped (fabric could be hooped too loose or too tight.) Can you take a picture and post the link here so we can see what it looks like?

www.imageshack.us will host the picture for free and give you the link.