Folks - Here's one for the techs out there. I know that the maintenance schedules assume relatively equal usage across the 16 needles even though this never happens in real life. I usually do my maintenance ahead of schedule because I don't want to have to stop at point where it is in the middle of a job or something.
My question is more about a specific needle. I have a job of 150 runs of a single color with about 4500 stitches each. I'm spreading this across my 2 XTs. How often should I 1) oil the needle bar in use, 2) move the thread to a different needle, 3) replace the needle, 4) all the other stuff I might have forgotten, etc.
I have been changing my heavily used threads to a new needle location about every 50,000 stitches but I've never had a single color where I am about to sew over 600K stitches.
Any advice would be helpful.
thanks in advance
Tom
My question is more about a specific needle. I have a job of 150 runs of a single color with about 4500 stitches each. I'm spreading this across my 2 XTs. How often should I 1) oil the needle bar in use, 2) move the thread to a different needle, 3) replace the needle, 4) all the other stuff I might have forgotten, etc.
I have been changing my heavily used threads to a new needle location about every 50,000 stitches but I've never had a single color where I am about to sew over 600K stitches.
Any advice would be helpful.
thanks in advance
Tom
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