Help! Multiple thread breaks

[tallcottongraphics]

I know that there are a lot of topics about this. But we have tried everything that we can think of to correct the thread breaks.
We bought the machine from Melco used a year ago and we have only had it running for a total of about 6 months in that year. We have had nothing but problems. Some our fault and some not. We finally have had it running right for the last 2 months. The orders have been coming in steady and we had several large orders for hats. The machine (Red Amaya) ran great through all 125 hats. Now all of a sudden it cannot do a complete letter without shreading the thread. It does it on different needles, different designs, different materials, etc. We changed the needles, the density in the designs and the bobbins. We are at our wits end. We have a lot of Christmas work to do and can't finish a single piece without the stitching getting jacked up. The stitches look ratty and uneven.

Of course our warranty ended about a week ago, so maybe that is it!

Any help would be appreciated

[Sewfly]

Did you change the needle plate to do the hats and then again to go back to flats? If so, did you make sure the needle is dead center of the needle plate?

Another thing, did you remember to change the presser foot height the material?

Hope this helps.

Susan

Sewfly Embroidery

[tallcottongraphics]

Thank you! Checked and the presser foot was high. Reset it and seems to be working fine now.

[Just Sew It]

I run two 2005 Amayas and do a lot of hats. If the thread is shredding, I look at "settings" and under thread feed, make sure I have a 5 for the lower limit for 6-panel stiff-buckram hats. I lower it for 5-panel to 4. My presser foot is all the way up and down 1 or 2. I often watch the acti-feed to see the highest feed number and if it is 14 I change to standard feed 14. This helps me I hope you find something here that helps you.
Jo