Non-Stop Thread Breaks. Help Quick???!!

[Gini]

I have had a similar thing happen to me repeatedly in the past. In my case, it was caused by the timing being off. If something gets caught in the bobbin case (like a fabric jam) the timing can get thrown off. If you have tried everything else, this might be the problem. There is a very detailed maintenance procedure for checking and then adjusting the timing. You can find this procedure in the technical manual but this procedure is a little tricky, and I would advise contacting Melco service and have them walk you through it. We had to do this procedure constantly in the beginning- I still dont know why the timing was getting off. We learned to do this procedure in our sleep but the first few times it was trial and error. Now the machine has settled in and we havent had the problem in a while (except once when stitching a beanie and the back side of the hat got caught in the bobbin case....) But if this is your problem, then you will get constant thread breaks until the timing gets adjusted properly. Good Luck! (I tried to post this to you yesterday and it wound up in the wrong topic. I hope this works!)

[danielk]

when you put on the machine does it make a horrible noise like the gears are breaking?.. if so.. go into maintenance steppers. Lift up all the thread rollers and click the button home for all the options. If that doesnt work you could of possibly have a bur on your hook. ummm.. check your rollers. Take one out grease it and only run it on the one you greased. If that doesn't work i suggest you call a technician. ive had thread breaks before and the things im telling you fixed my problems. Im not a technician but from experience thats worked.

[Stitch This by CH]

Well, first of all I want to thank my new found family. Thank you all for the calls, concerns, suggestions, etc. I tried most everything you guys have suggested. I ended up calling Melco and wanted to share with you some of what my problem was. . . My designs. Some of the things I had digitized myself and so I am told by Melco that I didn't digitize correctly which caused little stitches, etc., that in turn caused thread breaks. I don't buy that entirely but when I try things that I was told by Melco I don't get as many breaks. I am new at this business and am willing to experiment on digitizing instead of jumping and paying someone to do all my digitizing. Anyway, hopefully this helps someone who might be new like myslef and before you think you bought a lemon for a machine, check out the design you are trying to stitch. Even go in and chose one of the preloaded designs and see if you get breaks. When I did one of the preloaded designs I got zero breaks. Then I went back and stitches my design and I got breaks. I've got a lot a learning to do!

Just wanted to update. Thanks again to everyone who responded.

Chrissy

[danielk]

thats awesome its a good thing it was you and not the machine. Im really happy to hear it. Digitizing ia a tough thing. Practice makes perfect.

[Body Cover]

One thing I learned in a hurry about digitizing, is that I couldn't treat it like I do my everyday art work (I am a graphic designer) so I tend to be very detail oriented and I used to digitize with the stitches zoomed way in, thinking I could get all this detail and make my work look great, instead like you I built bullet proof designs with an excess of stitches and detail that wouldn't sew well and had many thread breaks from short stitches. work at a smaller level and don't zoom in as much and make sure you take breaks and change the view to actual size to see how the parts your working on corralate to the design. I used to try to get all the detail in ad realized the part I just spent 5 minutes on was only the size of 2 or three threads but zoomed in it seemed significant and needed to be there.
Hope that makes sense.

Ron

[Aaron]

Just want to chime in here for a troubleshooting tip for anyone having troubles and thinks it may be the machine.
There is a file called AMPASS06F.exp or something similar to that that you hoop 2 heavyweight cutaway in a large 17X11 wood hoop and run at 1200 spm and the machine should run this design all the way through with 2 or les breaks. This design was created to test different types of stitiches and movements as well as small and large lettering. If this design does not run then you definitely have machine problems. If it does run then you can narrow it down to something else besides the machine like digitizing, hooping, backing used, etc.

When you run the AMPASS you need to set the colors 1-16 so it will utilize every color to make sure everything is good on the machine.