yarn carriers, carriage, and needles desyncing issue
Hello all!
I am currently troubleshooting the kniterate my lab ordered for my textile research project
A consistent problem I am having is that the yarn carriers, carriage, and needles seem to desync. Sometimes the carriage pushes the yarn carrier across the knit without engaging the needles, and after the yarn carrier is all the way over, THEN the needles move up and down OVER the yarn that was supposed to be carried across the needles when they activate to knit the next row, this causes the yarn to fall off the needles. sometimes this happens during cast on with the draw thread after the waste yarn has been generated, other times it happens halfway thru a knit, other times needles will move up/down that were not engaged by the knitting pattern at all. I tried increasing the stopping distance and adding misses on either side of the knit project on rows where this was a consistent problem, and it sort of helped, but it didn't fix the problem. sometimes this causes the entire knit project to come off all the needles at once.
i also checked the yarn carriers height and for any broken needles, all are fine
any advice on things to try?
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just wanted to comment the fix-
the issue that was occurring was the yarn selectors were bumping the yarn carrier bows on the tracks over the incorrect section of the knit.
one of the comments of this post suggested tightening the yarn carriers on their track. I took the allen wrench that comes with the machine delivery and tightened the screw under the yarn carrier track attachment, sliding it along the track while tightening each screw on both sides of the yarn feeder until it was right before it was too tight to move. this created a friction force to resist getting bumped but not so much as to resist being moved for knitting. this fixed all the issues we were experiencing.
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Hi Alyssa Grube ,
I'm glad the problem is solved.
Thank you for the update!
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