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Offline 3Deep

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Thread issue?
« on: August 02, 2018, 10:37:08 AM »
got a question here, we've been doing embroidery just about all this week and I,m having problem's with thread fraying and the brand is maderia, our main thread is robinson-anton, but the customer likes a color that is made by maderia.  What could be causing the thread to fray or could I have gotten a bad spool , but I will say all the years using RA we never had that problem that I can recall, can some of you that really do heavy orders in embroidery educate me here. :-[
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Offline Doug B

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Re: Thread issue?
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2018, 11:22:49 AM »
  I use Madeira exclusively. How is the humidity in the machine area? That
will be a factor and an invisible burr in a needle will cause it to happen
frequently. I used RA once and quit when I had to use a spot gun on an
oil stain. The thread color bled all over the nice white shirts. I just did a
sample run this morning with poly and rayon side by side. I had the rayon
fray up 3 times on a 10,000 stitch design. Polyester ran fine.

Offline BP

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Re: Thread issue?
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2018, 11:47:39 AM »
change your needles! Also if the thread is old it can do that.
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Re: Thread issue?
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2018, 12:05:59 PM »
I did change the needle and that seem to help, could have been a burr, but I've been using that needle before with no problems with other threads.
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