Skipping A Stitch

[royslsbry]

What can cause a machine to skip a stitch? Sews great for 8 to ten stitches and the skips one and picks right back up for 8 to 10 good stitches and then skips one. I've tried a new needle and cleaned and oiled the machine and checked the tension and nothing has helped and idea?

[albane]

You may have a bad cone of thread.

Try sawping cones .

[Luke Hatley]

What kind of sewing machine do you have.

tension could be wrong,needle dull or bent,hook on the bobbin shuttle is bad,

just to name a few.

[TwinOaks]

I have a pre-owned Tippmann Boss, and the previous owner cautioned me to pull a little slack from the spool every 5-6 stitches to prevent that from happening. Sew a few stitches on scrap and watch the spool. It might be caused when the 'slack' off the cone get used up and the machine has to pull the thread off the backside of the cone. Once it gets some more slack, you're good to go. What could be happening is that the tension is too tight at the needle, preventing the thread from making a loop for the hook to pick up.

[royslsbry]

You were right when the thread was at the back side of the cone it was causing the problem. It must be this new cone cause it never happened before. but anyway i pulled the thread off a good bit and no problems till it had to pull it. So i think the problem is solved so thanks to everybody for the help.

I have a pre-owned Tippmann Boss, and the previous owner cautioned me to pull a little slack from the spool every 5-6 stitches to prevent that from happening. Sew a few stitches on scrap and watch the spool. It might be caused when the 'slack' off the cone get used up and the machine has to pull the thread off the backside of the cone. Once it gets some more slack, you're good to go. What could be happening is that the tension is too tight at the needle, preventing the thread from making a loop for the hook to pick up.