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  • Page 1 User Guide...

  • Page 2: Welcome

    Thank you for your purchase of the Quilter's Pro Deluxe Long Arm Quilting System. Quilter's Pro Deluxe offers you the ultimate marriage of affordability and functionality, and comes with a three-year electronics and lifetime casting warranty. We will always stand behind our products and any warranty issues will be fixed at no charge.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Attaching the Handlebars ................5 Your Rocker Arm Cover ................6 Your Thread Stand ..................9 Connecting your Quilter's Pro to your Carriage Assembly (Deck) ....11 General Operation of the App ..............12 What is the Tension Release Lever? .............16 How do I Adjust the Height of the Hopping Foot? ........17...

  • Page 4: Warranty

    Should it become necessary for you to return the machine for warranty work, please call us for specific instructions for packing and shipping your machine. • Your Quilter's Pro Deluxe has a three-year electronics and lifetime casting warranty from the day you receive your machine. •...

  • Page 5: Attaching The Handlebars

    Attaching the Deluxe Handlebar and Display Your Quilter's Pro Deluxe comes with handlebar, main display mount, and spring loaded display bracket. handlebar Main display mount Spring loaded display bracket Step 1: Use the four attaching screws to attach handlebar and display mount to the front of the machine.

  • Page 6: Your Rocker Arm Cover

    Step 2: Locate the rocker arm cover with the PCB. Needle light port Light bar port handlebar ports Main PCB port Step 2 Step 3: Connect the handle bar cable to the light bar port. Step 3 Step 4: Secure rocker arm cover to machine. Step 4 | User Guide...
  • Page 7 Step 5: Attach the spring loaded display bracket to the main display mount. Step 5 User Guide |...
  • Page 8 Attaching Your Rear Handlebars Step 1: Using the clamps with the slotted holes, you will attach your rear handlebars to the back of the machine. Step 2: Take the left handlebar (blue and yellow buttons) and attach to the left side of the machine when standing in the back.

  • Page 9: Your Thread Stand

    Your Thread Stand Your Quilter's Pro Deluxe comes with a four spool thread stand. This thread stand is connected to the side of your machine and can hold bobbin thread you are using to wind onto your bobbins and the top thread you are using to quilt.
  • Page 10 Attaching your Encoders to your Carriage Lower encoder Replace the screw holding the carriage wheel on with the new screw and the encoder between the Wheel and the screw. Upper Encoder Replace the screw holding the carriage wheel on with the new screw and the encoder between the Wheel and the screw.

  • Page 11: Connecting Your Quilter's Pro To Your Carriage Assembly (Deck)

    Connecting your Quilter's Pro Deluxe to your Carriage Assembly Your Carriage Assembly will need the encoder assemblies attached to the carriage before placing your machine on the carriage. Using the Quilter's Pro Deluxe encoder assembly instructions attach your encoder assembly to the carriage.

  • Page 12: General Operation Of The App

    NOTE: Must download app from the app store and only works with iPad IOS 9.0 or higher. Search "Quilter's Pro" in the app store to find. To open the app press this icon. | User Guide...
  • Page 13 This shows your stitch mode Adjust these settings This blue tooth by touching in the bar or connection needs sliding your finger in the bar to be on for machine operation These are your button settings User Guide |...
  • Page 14 To set speed and stitches per inch, touch the number above the sliders and use the number pad to set to your preferences. | User Guide...
  • Page 15 Changing the Button Settings Touch the file folder to open the options Touch User Profiles on the left side to open the profile management. In the profile management screen you can touch any of the buttons to open the button menu.

  • Page 16: What Is The Tension Release Lever

    Resetting the Timers By touching the timers at the bottom of the main page or file folder and then the advance mode you will be able to reset the timers. By touching the reset next to the timers you can reset them to zero.

  • Page 17: How Do I Adjust The Height Of The Hopping Foot

    Adjusting the Height of the Hopping Foot There are many reason to adjust the height of the hopping foot. You could be using a thicker batting, quilting a quilt with thicker seams, or just need a little more clearance. You don’t want the foot to be too high as that can cause strain on the thread, create flagging of the fabric while stitching, or just be to high if you put a ruler next to it.

  • Page 18: Routine Cleaning And Oiling

    Routine Cleaning and Oiling Routine cleaning and oiling is very important to the longevity of your quilting machine. Brush out the fuzz from around the hook and foot. Change your needle regularly to avoid thread breakage, tension problems and needle breakage. A worn needle can mean skipped stitches, shredded thread and a weakening of the needle itself.

  • Page 19: Bobbin Winder And Bobbins

    Bobbin Winder and Bobbins A bobbin winder is included with your machine. The thread on a properly wound bobbin should be snug and have even layers of thread. A sloppy or mushy wound bobbin will result in poor stitch quality. How do I wind a Bobbin? Step 1: Insert an empty bobbin on the bobbin winder spindle.
  • Page 20 Check the tension of the bobbin by holding the loaded bobbin case in one hand. With one hand under the bobbin case, hold the tail of thread and watch as the thread flows out of the bobbin case. A slight bounce should cause the bobbin case to slide down the thread.

  • Page 21: Threading Overview

    Threading Your Quilter's Pro Your Quilter's Pro Deluxe is capable of sewing with many types of threads. One thing to keep in mind is this machine is an industrial machine so very light threads will be harder to use that the more traditional machine quilting threads.
  • Page 22 Step 3: Thread upper thread guide as show in figure 49 (if you use all three holes it will add drag/tension to the thread) Step 4: Weave thread as shown on the three hole thread guide. (if you use all three holes it will add drag/ Figure 50 Figure 49 tension to the thread) See figure 50...

  • Page 23: How Do I Change The Needle

    How do I Change the Needle? A 134RSAN needle (size 18) will be installed on your Quilter's Pro Deluxe from the factory. When it is time to Needle Screw replace the needle you can easily install one. Be sure the power switch is off on the machine.

  • Page 24: How Do I Make Adjustments To Make The Perfect Stitch

    How do I Make Adjustments to Make the Perfect Stitch? Understanding how your long arm machine makes a stitch will help you make the proper adjustments to make the perfect stitch. The technique all long arm machines use to make a stitch is basically opposite of the home sewing machine.

  • Page 25: Tension, Tension, Tension

    Tension, Tension, Tension ..This probably causes more problems than anything else. You need correct tension on the top and bottom threads but you also must have correct tension on the quilt held between the bars. You should be able to gently rock the belly bar where the backing fabric is attached. This allows enough movement of your quilt layers for the needle to penetrate and make good stitches.
  • Page 26 Eyelashes Eyelashes on the back of the quilt can be caused by too little top tension. Turn the thread tension disk clockwise ¼ turn. Make small adjustments. Repeat until stitch quality is good. Remember the upper and lower thread play tug of war with each other. Loose Top Stitch Is the tension lever handle down? It lowers the hopping foot and applies the tension disk.

  • Page 27: Check Spring Replacement/Tension Knob

    Check Spring Replacement/Tension Knob From time to time you may need to replace the check spring. We will use a series of photos to help you. Broken Spring Figure 63 Figure 61 Figure 62 Tension Assembly with Broken Tension Assembly with good Screw on inside of machine Spring.
  • Page 28 Figure 73 Figure 74 Figure 75 New Spring, This tail is what was Insert the new spring Twist while inserting the new broken spring Figure 76 Figure 77 Figure 78 Insert the tension assembly back into New spring in place Ensure that you are all the way in.

  • Page 29: Machine Will Not Sew. I Cannot Turn The Hand Wheel (Jammed)

    Figure 85 Figure 86 Figure 87 Tighten screw on your machine Tension assembly back For fine adjustment of check in place with new check spring insert screwdriver turn spring at 11:00 clockwise for more tension Machine Will Not Sew. I Cannot Turn the Hand Wheel If you find that your machine is stuck chances are that there is a thread or something stuck in the bobbin race.

  • Page 30: Adjusting The Bobbin Winder

    Adjusting the Bobbin Winder Lever (Amount of Fill on the Bobbin) Step 1: Using your allen wrench loosen the set screw (A) holding the bobbin winder Lever (B) in place. See figures 98 and 99 Note: you do not need to pull the bobbin winder out to adjust this setting.

  • Page 31: Adjusting Bobbin Winder For Contact With The Upper Shaft

    Adjusting Bobbin Winder and Contact with the Shaft Step 1: Loosen the three (3) screws (A) holding the bobbin winder in place but do not remove them. See figure 101 Step 2: Twist the bobbin winder (B) to the right for more contact with the inner shaft or move left for less contact.

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