Nothing But issues with my Ricoma MT-1501/ 50 Hat Order
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Running across a few issues with my embroidery machine and trying to figure things out. Let's see if we can resolve the issues together.
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I’ve been using Tajimas for 20 years now. It’s a steep learning curve. To be honest, it’s probably not the machine or the digitiser. Hats are a curved surface. As it sees , the fabric gets pushed away, I always do caps from the bottom up, centre out, as much as possible. If you don’t, you get the bunching up I saw in this vid. Also gaps between the smaller letters. As you had done that , worked, I would suggest it’s just learning to understand the machine some more, and informing your digitiser that the design is for caps ( or different substrates) as this does make a difference. With the cap frame clips on the holder, I always , ALWAYS, lift each one once I’ve loaded the frame to make sure they are clicked in.
I ALWAYS use backing, heavy tear away, doubled for unstructured hats. I have the clamping strap quite firm to refuse movement. Hope this helps
Forgot to mention I own a MT1501 too, and mentioned to Ricoma to spend more time in training dealing with tension. Have a Brother single needle machine that taught me that tension is key.
Check videos by Romero Threads, he's good about teaching working on hats and also digitizing.
i just bought one and omg tension is driving me crazy
@@natalieamezola2922 yep, I spent more time in the first few days learning that the springs they installed were the wrong ones, no matter what I did adjusting the tension nothing worked. They sent me replacement springs and have not had any problems since ( a year and half now dec 2023)
how much are you charging on hats
Simple fix for your gaps your going to laugh but get you a spray bottle and put just water in it and after you hoop the cap spray the front panel with water to keep it from bouncing 👌🏾
Great tip thank you
Great tip thank you
@@brittanybriggs3806 your welcome, let me know how it goes
Does a steamer work also ?
Good
I have had my MT-1501 for about a year now, and have played around with it some. I am doing my first official order this weekend... jackets with a chest logo and a name on opposite side. I had some issues with the machine actually getting out of position. I think my jacket was draped too loosely and it snagged when the machine made a big movement. It caused the lettering to be off by a lot. I am lucky I did it on a test jacket. I am using the table attachment now and I got a magnetic frame. Really like it so far. Nice video.... it is cool to see people's work in progress. I know the struggles are real!
Thanks for subscribing and you are right the struggle is real and we are just figuring out things as we go haha.
Hats are bouncing too much get clips to hold the hat down.
Yes I have clips but was told by the Ricoma tech I didn't need them for this hat, I found out my tension needed to be adjusted which I've had 2 reps out since this video.
I keep telling them I think I have a Lemon 😂
@@brittanybriggs3806 Totally get vendor has advised you the clips aren’t needed, however, clips help ensure the hat and hoop stay together under the rapid directional changes during embroidery. While the brim may be locked in tight that tension does not provide stability from the brim up to the crown of the hat. Your hats are moving during embroidery. I’d call that flapping the primary culprit. You will have more consistently reliable results if you try to eliminate that additional motion and keep full tension across both planes on the front of the hat during embroidery.
Practice your hopping if you have varied misses look to hooping. Digitizing issue would be the same spot everytime. Ricoma tc1501 is what I run.
Hat embroidery should go bottom up and center out. Looks like it's ending on the bottom. This causes "wrinkling" of the hat and in turn causes bad registration. Also, loose thread (or those long tails) could mean tension issues, I keep a bobbin with higher tension just for hats. I got a tension gauge and now keep flats bobbin at 150 in the scale and for hats I keep that at 250, another thing you could do is move the tension bar up one click from the 90deg angle.
I slowed it waaaaay down 480
I've made over 1,500 hats with my machine. Takes a ton on learning and practicing
Yes that is what I'm learning. Patience is everything 😂
@brittanybriggs3806 some days are better than others I still have issues I don't onderstand all the time
Machine is so loud! They told me it’s gentle humming!
Aline letter and border before do test in a pice fabric
Did you have this digitized for hats? It should embroider from the bottom up and center out. Does it run well as a flat? Looks like you might need to change the angles in your software to delete that angle gap. Also looks like you need to use 60 weight thread and 65 needle for small lettering. You need curved scissors with a sharp point. You won't need to use a seam ripper. Try KAI scissors. RICOMA shouldn't just leave customers hanging. I just had a 4.5 hour lesson in my home on my new Tajima. We ran a regular unstructured hat and a 3D foam hat. I know Barudan also has personal lessons too.
your hat is jumping "moving around" why are there no clamps on your ha t!!! my god girl ... , you need to use 2 clips per side and make the hat super tight on the hat hoop you need backing the full length make the baking go over both clamp bars then put your hat on and pull tight and use the clips !!! & , yes its alot of extra backing but it will hold the hat in place and you wont mess up your hats , trust me , and for the ice hockey ask the digitizer to lay a .75mm tatami stich down first same colour as the hat , &&& the letters at the bottom should stitch out first Im praying for you Its me garbagecanfpv this is my other account and also return that machine and get a tajima....trust me china compared to Japan is world of difference god bless you my little lamb
Haha I love your feedback thank you.
I'm going, to be honest with you, it's the machine. I have a Highland HM/E-1501C and a Ricoma MT-1501. No matter what I do, you can tell the difference in the stitch quality. I'm waiting on my new Melco emt16x to be delivered, and I'm pretty sure the stitch difference will be even more significant.
I agree with you, I have a video coming out in a week to hat goes over the issues I found out my machine did have 🤦🏼♀️.
the hat is slipping that is causing the gaps!! you need to use the clips, you also 100% need tear a way backing that goes over each bar that holds the clips not a small piece that just fits the logo size it needs to almost wrap all the way just past the clip bars , its not expensive, what is expensive is wrecking the hats and the time you wasted running it !! plus you will lose customers if this behaviour continues and a bad name could be the death of your business I use 2 clips per side even on small stitch counts , it needs to be held firmly in place , you mentioned almost 10,000 stitches imagine the hats shaking back and forth that many times and is causing the hat to shift , I cant believe Ricoma would tell you not to use the clips or any type of backing , if that's true they need to get schooled big time I'm sorry if i come off hard but i hope you learnt something from me rambling but it comes from my 8 years exp. and also digitizers aren't embroiderers so they only think cause the computer makes the image look good it will stitch out good, NOT THE CASE , I do my own Digitizing ( and you should look it too ) some times it takes me 2-5 edits before its acceptable but I'm a perfectionist and with type of business you kinda need to be to be honest , because a bad looking hat make you look not so goo check out some of my work in the gallery section yourcustomwear.ca
Yeah you need to use the clips. I've only done one hat but the sewing store showed me with clips and the hat came out good. Other comments are correct you shouldn't have thread tails in the front. That little tool is a seam ripper.
6:59 - no design will stitch well with that hooping - how can you blame anything else!
It may help you when doing constructed hats if you lowered the footer of the needles that are in use in will stop the extreme bouncing that is causing your registration to go off in my case it was worse because the hats were so hard I had needle brakes, Good look hopefully that resolve your issues 😉🙏🏼👍🏼
Great thank you, I'll need to try that. 😊
I try today my first hat and change the needles to 80 and try at low speed, but every time start and the needle is broken. I try and 100 needle but same problem. Any advice how to fix the problem?
Hi Nick,
Thank you for being a new subscriber. Hats can be bit tricky, but some key items to watch out for. Thickness of the hat, if its a thicker hat you can get a lot of deflection which can cause the needles to snap. Make sure the hoop is adjusted properly to help reduce this. The same applies if the hat is to thin (flimsy). Try using a tare away backing if needed. Also make sure the needles are titanium, the cheaper ones seem to snap easier.
Hope this helps
I go thru so much with my ricoma and it’s crazy because it has good days and bad days. So bad where I’m looking to send my work out rather let it up eat more blanks. If your looking for a good digitizer try absolute digitizing they helped me most of my work since i started.
Take the hat presses and drop it as low as possible to the sewing arm so there is less of a gap it’s inside the 4 hex heads , there a RUclips video somewhere
IMO hats are dangerous on good days to run , I have a 2007 Tajima and run hats at 540 rpm max, sorry but and that digitizing is horrible, you should have run a few samples first before running this order and sent them to the digitizer to fix the issues OMG, the WPU & small lettering should of had a black base of looser tatami like .60mm - .75 mm spacing then those letters would have come out way better, in orange fill has an option to over lap 2-3 rows when there is a break in the fill would fix that part , my heart is broken watching this i cant stop crying bless your soul my dear
Yea this wasn't a run project, but I ended up finding out my machine was broken, video on that drops Thursday and I've gotten a new digitizer since this video uploaded. Lot's of live and learn moments.
Oh My God!!! This video and job gave me 100% anxiety. I don’t own a machine yet but I feel there are so many issues here it’s unreal. Seems like you are doing way more work than needed per hat. I don’t know where since I know nothing 😂 but researching and video watching it just seems like there a lot going on here that is incorrect causing you time and time is money.
I couldn't agree more, when I filmed this I didn't realize my machine had more issues than I was aware of. I ended up calling Ricoma I've had a tech come out to my house 4-5 times replacing parts, making corrections it was crazy, my machine is finally up and running now but WOW this was so stressful at the time because bad work fails on me and my business which no one wants.
Happy to say the machine is running better today and hats are not as large of an issue but of course I feel you are always learning when it comes to embroidery.
Did you try dampening the hat? Not soaking. Moisten it a bit that cuts the bounce.example: ruclips.net/video/xablicd2Uj4/видео.html
Yes I have done that before, personally I try to avoid these hats if I can now.
Wow! I am sorry I can't offer help; I just got my Ricoma 1 month ago. I am still learning. What size needle are you using? Thank you for sharing.
The standard needle I would recommend is the Titanium 75 which I linked in one of my RUclips videos, I also have the 80 for thicker material and I would recommend picking up the 90 for jean material etc.
I hope you subscribe and we can help each other with problem shooting 😊
Notice how flat the face of the hat is after the embroidery. I use a steamer to deform the hat (after I hoop it, prior to putting it on the machine) to look similar. Then after embroidery is complete use the steamer to reshape the face.
When you do your trace, look at the hat from the side, and if the bill of the hat hits the machine you need to bend it down or it will throw off your registration, then use the steamer to straighten it out after embroidery.
I feel your pain, I have been doing this for three years, starting from zero knowledge, it takes fortitude and a Great spouse to work through this.
Keep up the hard work!!
This is all great information, I have a steamer so I'll definitely need to try that next time.
Hi Brittany! Just watching your video and there is way too much "give" in these hats as they are being embroidered, indented almost. You need to get the hat to keep most of its shape while it embroiders. Did you ever adjust the actual hat hoop that secures to the machine? From what I remember...there are some screws inside of that you can loosen and it'll lift it higher up which worked well for me. Also...lower the presser feet on the hat needles as well. I do recommend using the hat clips to help with bouncing and/or shifting. I do hats all the time and was frustrated in the beginning but because of these changes I've implemented, I have way more success now with hats! Hope this helps...good luck!!
You are correct, there is a screw. You can adjust the hat hoop which I've done several times but Ricoma ended up coming out to my house and I found out that my X drive was actually broken which is why I was having so many issues. I need to post an updated video but I just got sick and haven't been able to film. But thanks for the feedback you just never know what the issue can be.
@@brittanybriggs3806 oh wow...that's great they went out and fixed it!! Hopefully you are feeling better. God bless!!
Seam ripper
Hi Brittany! Let me know if you still need help with the digitizing. How is the tension on the machine when embroider a hat?
I had a call with ricoma last week and we adjusted my tension. 😊
@@brittanybriggs3806 Great! I always have two bobbinholders, one for flat materials and one for hats.
Is better Melco I think
I would love to try a Melco but don't know anyone who owns one = (
So what I'm hearing is ricoma have a great PR team and sub par embroidery machines
Yeah they get ppl with the 0% financing and RUclips’s. But there machine aren’t that bad you just have to learn the machine.
You might need to adjust your feet and also when you order your designs from your digitizer tell them that you are going to be using the design on hat’s. It’s not the same as flat designs. Also you might need to adjust your tension
I did let my digitizer know it was for a hat, I'll need to Google how to adjust the tension. Thanks