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Why am I getting lots of thread breaks?
It has been our observation that in most cases when running production people tend to forget or over look the small / short stitches in there designs. We have seen a lot of cases where a designs small stitches are set at the default which is usually at .30 or .40 MM. This can cause several problems, It will cause excessive thread breaks and fraying, thread pullouts and cause the machine to even miss a few trims here and there. which we all know increases our production time and not to mention the frustration of continuously rethreading needles.

When you have several stitches sewing in the same needle hole due to too short of a stitch length the machine looses control of the thread and could cause any one or any combination of these problems. There are a couple of solutions for this problem, you can set the small / short stitch default in your Embroidery software too .60 or .70 and when outputting the design to your machine it will be ready for your run or on our NEW M SERIES machine you can clean it up right on the control panel either way if you run your small stitches at .60 or .70 in 99% of the cases you will notice a considerable difference in production time and in sewing quality of your embroidery.

NOTE: When running a design clean up notice the stitch count before and after you will see the amount of unnecessary stitches that it removes