Pressure Foot Adjustment

[Mila]

How do you adjust the pressure foot on an XT?

[Judy]

On the needlecase, in the back on the left, is a small wheel. For hats, turn it all the way "up", then down two clicks. For flats, turn it all the way down and then up two clicks.

[HERB]

One must remember to place the needle in the head down position for the adjustments to work.

[Rod or Sharon]

On the XT, while doing caps, the correct position of the pressure foot is to ratchet it all the way down and then come up two clicks. This is just a starting point and may be adusted to match however thick the center seam of the cap is to reduce the " hammering sound" from the foot impacting the surface of the cap. The goal is to hold the cap surface " down " to prevent flagging.

The NON-XT Amaya's are just reversed from this as the rule of thumb with them is to ratchet the presser foot all the way up and come down a couple. This is because the standard Amaya has an intercangeable needle plate. One has a raised surface and the presser foot has to be raised to accomadate for this and the other is flat and is used for sewing on flats......

Rod Springer
Melco Tech & Trainer

[levelbest]

Ugh. I hate the term non xt... as if we big red owners are missing out on something. I prefer original amaya owner. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Just a note here... that assumes you actually use the raised needle plate. We find we do just as well without it and run hats a couple clicks up fine on the standard plate with the conventional cap frame.