Adjusting The Needle Clearance; Adjusting The Inner Rotary Hook And Hook Stopper Overlap; Adjusting The Rotary Hook Lubrication Amount - Brother BAS-342G PS Instruction Manual

11-6. Adjusting the needle clearance

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Turn the machine pulley to align the rotary hook tip (1) with the center of the needle (2), and then loosen the two set screws
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(3) and move the rotary hook (4) forward or back to adjust so that the clearance between the needle (2) and the rotary hook
tip (1) is 0.01 − 0.08 mm.

11-7. Adjusting the inner rotary hook and hook stopper overlap

11-8. Adjusting the rotary hook lubrication amount

More oil
Less oil
Loosen the two screws (3) to adjust so that the tip of the
hook stopper (1) does not protrude past edge A of the inner
rotary hook (2).
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Turn the adjusting screw (1) to adjust the lubrication
amount.
* Adjust so that approximately 10 drops of oil are released
when the sewing machine is run at a speed of 2,700
sti/min for three cycles to sew about 150 stitches. Use
Kraft paper (2) or similar to catch the oil drops. As a
guide, the optimum position can be obtained if the
adjusting screw (1) is tightened as much as possible and
then loosened about one turn.
• If the adjusting screw (1) is turned clockwise, the
lubrication amount becomes smaller.
• If the adjusting screw (1) is turned counterclockwise,
the lubrication amount becomes greater.
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11. STANDARD ADJUSTMENTS
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