presser foot

[Anita]

I've seen several references to raising/lowering the presser foot but can't find any info in the manuals or software on how to. How is that adjustment made? Thought I'd find out before I need it.

Thanks,
Anita

[GF]

There is a wheel/knob behind the needles that you an turn. I was told to turn the wheel all the way down for thing fabric and only one click above for fleece and maybe 2 clicks above for hats.

[Anita]

Thanks GF! I'll look at that when I get home.

It was driving me nuts to not find anything on it...I'm sure it's there, but just one of those things. Wonder how I've missed it.

Anita

[Rod or Sharon]

The proper way to set the presser foot height is:
while in OS,
Go to Maintenance, Head Timing, Bottom Center.

With the needle at Bottom Center, you can visually see the presser foot move. This is the only position of the needle that puts the presser foot cam follower where it moves the presser foot up and down so that you can see it.......

The rule of thumb for most thin items will be all the way down and up 1 or 2.

Rod Springer
Amaya Tech & trainer

[Anita]

Good information...Thanks Rod!

Anita

[signman]

Finally figured out how to re-set the presser foot depth. Problem had been the presser foot was 'high'-over 3/8" inch above the point of the needle-and with fabric under it, turning the wheel all the way to 'no clicks' it still wouldn't touch. Looping, thread wouldn't cut, material 'flagging'-called our tech Brian and he explained how to fix it and Sue had called and talked to Chris at Melco and got instructions so we tackled it this morning.
Turn machine and program on (in proper order) and once up and running, go to needle 16, and 'Bottom Center' in Maintenance. for safety, hit the 'red' stop button. Now remove the 'black plastic' cover to the left of the needle bar with 4 setscrews. Look at the 'presser foot wheel' and see the 'half moon' in silver-there's a set screw right in the middle of it. Same wrench you used to remove the black cover. Loosen this set screw, and turn the wheel until the presser foot gently rests on the needle plate (flat plate, NOT the raised plate) and then tighten it back up. Test the wheel, you'll see the foot go up and down! Ours had stopped doing that! Put the cover back on, make sure everything is out of the way, and turn the 'red' button back on.
I think our 'foot' had gone out of adjustment by NOT raising the foot wheel when we would put the hat hoop assembly on-and start sewing hats to set the adjustment. This probably made it 'jam' down on the raised needle plate and the setscrew wheel would move. So now we'll make sure we ALWAYS raise the presser foot all the way until the hoop driver is in place to do a 'bottom center' check and set it again.