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What size needle & thread are you using? 

Bob Kovar
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@CowboyBobI am officially an idiot. Apparently the needles I used were 135x17, which I now know is a fabric size. I had assumed they had leather tips but they did not. 

Just bought some 135x16 tri tip needles and I hope that will solve the blow through problems. 

Thanks all - 

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1 hour ago, tagfan said:

@CowboyBobI am officially an idiot. Apparently the needles I used were 135x17, which I now know is a fabric size. I had assumed they had leather tips but they did not. 

Just bought some 135x16 tri tip needles and I hope that will solve the blow through problems. 

:lol: You're not the first to do that. Spent a morning recently trying to figure why my machine was running so heavy with a poor stitch til I realised I'd pulled a pack of 135x17 out the drawer instead of x16.

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Well the new needles didn’t make any difference. I just ground down the middle of the feed dog with a dremel and that seemed to help a lot. Little more grinding and there will be no marks left at all. 

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