3.18
Needle to Rotating Hook Relation Adjustment
Precaution
If the clearance is too small, the rotating hook points will wear out, and too big, it will cause the skip stitch. When replacing the rotating hook, it should be using the original one.
Adjusting the height of the needle bar (Figure 27)
Turn the handwheel until the needle bar has been at the lowest point, loosen the setscrew ‘1’.
The line ‘A’ on the needle bar ‘2’ align with the bottom end of needle bar lower bushing ’3’, then securely tighten the setscrew ‘1’.
Adjusting the position of the rotating hook
Loosen two rotating hook set- screws and turn the handwheel until the line ‘B’ on needle bar align with the bottom end of needle bar lower bushing ‘3’.
After the above adjustments steps, the rotating hook point ‘5’ aligns with the center of needle ‘4’, and make sure the clearance between the needle and the rotating hook ‘5’ is 0.04~0.1 mm.
Figure 27
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