How often do you change your needle?
#24
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Huntsville, AL
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The life of a needle is about 8 hours of use. So I change mine accordingly. If you wait until the needle maked that popping sound in the fabric you are to late and could cause damage to the fabric.
Glenn
Glenn
#27
Whenever I start to have problems. Was quilting a taffeta vest and it was skipping large stiches then the thread was fraying. changed the bobbin, rethreaded, still same problem. change to a needle with a large eye voila no more problems. Usually change needle after quilting King or, Queen.
#28
I too just got some titanium needles and will see how they work. Before I would change my needles when the thread started to break or machine started to make a funny sound. On my new Bernina I change the needle all the time just in case because the machine cost so much. I want to get some of the titanium needles for my quilting machine if they make then. The ones I bought for my Brother do not fit my HQ.
#29
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 184
I guess I'm odd because I have a "method" for this.
I have a little plastic case that I keep my bobbins and needles in. I clean my machine after 5 bobbins and change my needle after 10 bobbins.
So, I only wind 5 bobbins at a time. Once they are gone I clean the machine, wind up 5 more, put my needles into the slot closest to the new wound bobbins, and begin stitching again. Once those bobbins are gone I clean my machine and remember it is time to change the needle because the needles are in the slot beside my bobbins. After this I then put the needles in the far left slot so I know that I did it.
Sad how anal I am, but too many other things going on in a regular day and it is the only way I can remember to do these things.
Suzanne
I have a little plastic case that I keep my bobbins and needles in. I clean my machine after 5 bobbins and change my needle after 10 bobbins.
So, I only wind 5 bobbins at a time. Once they are gone I clean the machine, wind up 5 more, put my needles into the slot closest to the new wound bobbins, and begin stitching again. Once those bobbins are gone I clean my machine and remember it is time to change the needle because the needles are in the slot beside my bobbins. After this I then put the needles in the far left slot so I know that I did it.
Sad how anal I am, but too many other things going on in a regular day and it is the only way I can remember to do these things.
Suzanne
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