Noisy Amaya XT

[townhall1023]

I just purchased a used 2007 Amaya XT. I was wondering is it suppose to make so much noise? I have a small shop, but it sounds like metal rubbing. I did the maintenance, but it didn't help.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks
Doris

[danielk]

what kind of noises are you hearing ive heard alot of foul noises from my xt and most of them are normal. If your hearing. I wouldnt be too alarmed from the noise. Ive heard my machine almost scream in noise, pending on the design.

[townhall1023]

Thanks Danielk, I feel better now about purchasing a used machine. The noise like rubbing is loud at slower speeds, but when I bump it up it sounds like it is singing. I think it is probably the way it should sound. I appreciate your reply.

[danielk]

yeah that singing noise only gets worse over time. but normal. haha as long as you dont see smoke flying out of your machine im sure you'll be fine.
i was joking about the smoke by the way.

[Rod or Sharon]

Doris,

Plain and simple, you should not be hearing anything like metal rubbing at any speed.

Check the clearance between the back side of the presser foot shaft and the front side of the grabber trap where the thread is held by the velcro strips. Do this by, while the machine is on, depress your Emergency stop button, reach up underneath the sewing arm area, grab hold of the silver rod, this is the Z-Axis shaft and rotate it back and forth. Watch as the presser foot comes down, that the back side of it does not touch the front side of the grabber trap. You need to check this in various places by moving the needle case across the machine. If you find that the presser foot is touching, a very slight bending of either the presser foot or the grabber trap will be in order, to adjust for clearance. If you choose to bend the presser foot, you also must make sure that the presser foot has proper clearance to the back side of the needles. It must not be allowed to get in contact with a needle while in operation.

Also slowly rotate the Z-Axis shaft completely around several times and see if you can locate any binding , roughness, or anything that may be touching to cause you to hear what sounds like "metal" rubbing.

The machine is a sewing machine and should sound like one. If a noise gets worse over time than, there is something wrong and should be fixed.

Make sure to go through and lubricate all the rollers, both the red pinch rollers and the yellow colored thread feed rollers, all of the needle bars in their respective upper and lower locations, the reciprocator shaft oiling port(24 drops here), the rotary hook(at least once a day), in short a complete Premaintenance Inspection Procedure ....the sound of metal rubbing is not acceptable.

Rod Springer
Amaya Tech & Trainer