Secrets to Embroidery Machine Maintenance

Secrets to Embroidery
Machine Maintenance
Sponsored by:

Webinar Moderator
Nicole Rollender
• Editor, Stitches magazine, and
Embroidery Business Insights and
Stitches Small Business newsletters
• Director of Education for ASI
• E-mail: nrollender@asicentral.com

Meet Your Presenter
JIM AUCLAIR founded
Fixyourstitch Embroidery
Machine Repair in 1999. Prior
to that, he worked at Hirsch
International as a field service
technician and at Melco as a
senior technician. Along with
serving his own customer
base, he contracts with
several industry sales
companies. He lives in
Vancouver, WA, and services
the Northwest. Contact:
jim@fixyourstitch.com.

Meet Your Presenter
JERILEE AUCLAIR owns
and operates Black Eagle
Designs and Busyhead
Creations, a stock
digitizing company. She's
been digitizing for more
than 13 years and she's
stepped out in the
industry as a digitizing
instructor, specializing in
Tajima DG/ML by Pulse
software. Contact:
jerilee@blackeagle
designs.com.

Agenda
Embroidery equipment is expensive, and you
must maintain it to keep your valuable
business investment in tip-top shape – to
keep production, and your bottom line, up.
In this Webinar, you’ll learn:
•Six key areas of an embroidery machine
that you should be cleaning and maintaining
regularly
•Plus, learn what you can fix – and when you
should call your technician

Why You Should Maintain Your
Embroidery Machine From Day 1
1. To sustain peak production capability
2. To sustain maximum stitch quality
3. To maintain viability of your equipment
in the resale market
4. To reduce maintenance costs and
machine down time

Machine Maintenance Tip 1
1. Have your cleaning power
supplies on hand – and use
them.
• Your job: Thoroughly clean your
machine once a month.
• The tech’s job: Get a tech to deep
clean your machine once a year.

Machine Maintenance Tip 2
2. Clean the pantograph. Keep
this area clean to reduce the risk
of registration problems.
• Your job: Clean the debris out every
month.
• The tech’s job: Get a tech to inspect
the pantograph once a year. The tech
should repack all bearings every
three to five years.

Machine Maintenance Tip 3
3. Inspect your knife area.
• Your job: Clean and inspect the area
once a week.
• The tech’s job: Get a tech to check,
and adjust if necessary, the knife
blade level and pressure. The tech
can replace blades as needed.

Machine Maintenance Tip 4
4. Maintain your tensioner assembly.
• Your job: Deep clean pre-tension disks
every few months.
• Your job: Replace tension felt every few
years.
• The tech’s job: Your tech can replace
damaged check springs when needed
and set tensions on them.
• The tech’s job: Your tech can inspect
all check spring tensions.

Machine Maintenance Tip 5
5. Grease your machine.
• Your job: Read the manual and
understand where to lubricate with
grease.
• The tech’s job: Get your tech to
inspect your machine for overgreasing
and remove excess grease
when needed.

Machine Maintenance Tip 6
6. Flush out your rotary hooks.
• Your job: Flush out the rotary hook
areas every month or two.

Audience: Q & A Session
Contact Contact Information:
Information:
Jim Auclair : jim@fixyourstitch.com
Fixyourstitch Embroidery Machine Repair
www.fixyourstitch.com
(503) 930-2131
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group, send an e-mail to Jerilee Auclair
at jerilee@blackeagledesigns.com.
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