April 19th, 2010, 05:43 PM
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Needle breaking question
Earlier this week I was running some hats on my four-head Barudan. The machine ran the first 840 stitches in red just fine. After that it color-changed to white (like it's supposed to) and with that first stitch the needle on the second head broke in two different places. I turned that head off and finished running the other three so I could look at the second head. After examining everything closely and not seeing anything out of place, I put that hat back on to see if it was a fluke thing, but the needle broke again with the first stitch. After at least a half-hour of close examination and two more broken needles I called tech support. After asking all the expected questions he still wasn't sure what it might have been, so he had me put the normal arms back on and sew on a couple sheets of backing to see if the needle would still break on something flat. It began sewing just fine, so I put a new hat back on and it began sewing like normal. It is now running just fine. However, I'm still unsure as to what the original problem was, so I was curious to see if anyone here could figure it out.
(and yes, I did check the hat and there was nothing inside it that could have broken the needle)
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