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Baby Lock Crown Jevel BLCJ18 Instruction And Reference Manual

Baby Lock Crown Jevel BLCJ18 Instruction And Reference Manual

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  • Page 1 To register your machine warranty and receive Baby Lock product updates and offers, go to www.babylock.com/profile. If you have questions with registration, visit your Authorized Baby Lock Retailer.

  • Page 2: Important Safety Instructions

    IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, in- cluding interference that may cause undesired operation. When using an electrical appliance, basic safety precautions should always be followed, including the following: Read all instructions before using this quilting machine.
  • Page 3 GROUNDING GROUNDED OUTLET BOXES TAB FOR METAL GROUNDING SCREW SCREW GROUNDING PIN ADAPTER Figure 1 This product is for use on a nominal 120 V or nominal 220 V circuit, and has a grounding plug that looks like the plug illustrated in sketch A in Figure 1. A temporary adapter, which looks like the adapter illustrated in sketches B and C, may be used to connect this plug to a 2-pole receptacle as shown in sketch C if a properly grounded outlet is not available.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Baby Lock Crown Jewel Regulator Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • Page 5: Baby Lock Crown Jewel Quick Facts

    Baby Lock and its authorized retailers are not legally responsible or liable for dam- Minimum Sewing Speed 90 spm age to the Baby Lock Crown Jewel when Needle Bar Stroke 35.3 mm used improperly or not in accordance with Sewing Foot Stroke/Lift...

  • Page 6: Home Machine Quilting Frame Recommendation

    Never drop or insert foreign objects into any opening. The Baby Lock Crown Jewel should only be used indoors away from moisture. The Baby Lock Crown Jewel should not be stored or used in extreme temperatures. Use the Baby Lock Crown Jewel only for its intended use as described in this manual.

  • Page 7: Package Contents/Included Accessories

    Package Contents /Included Accessories Part Name Part Code Box 1 of 4 Baby Lock Crown Jewel BLCJ18 Quilting Machine / Stitch Regulator User Manual IBBLCJ18 Class M Bobbins (5 pieces) BLJ-BOB (3 pkg.) Needle size 16 (1 pkg. of 10) 134FG-100 Needle size 18 (1 pkg. of 10)

  • Page 8: Optional Accessory Listings

    Optional Accessories Part Name Part Code Shown on page 41 Adaptor Plate/Stylus Holder BLJ18-SA Shown on page 40 Channel Lock BLJ18-CL Cluster Lights (pkg. 2) BLJ18-L Shown on page 11 Shown on page 42 Horizontal Spool Pin BLJ18-HS Shown on page 4 Needle size 20 (1 pkg.

  • Page 9: Baby Lock Crown Jewel Components

    Baby Lock Crown Jewel Components Front-Side Diagram A 1. Thread Mast 8. Thread Guide E 2. Thread Guide A 9. Needle Bar Thread Guide 3. Three Hole Thread Guide B 10. Needle 4. Thread Guide C 11. Front Casing/Frame 5. Tension Assembly 12.

  • Page 10: Back-Side Diagram B

    Baby Lock Crown Jewel Components continued Back-Side Diagram B 14. Machine Stitch Regulator (Y-Motion) 15. Hopping Foot 16. Needle Bar 17. Presser Bar 18. Back Casing/Frame 19. Front Handle Serial Port Connector 20. Top Laser Stylus Post Hole 21. Front Threaded Handle Holes 22.

  • Page 11: Installing Machine On Carriage

    Installing Machine on Carriage Place the carriage on the table rails ensuring that the carriage stitch regulator assembly is toward the back of the table (Figure 1). Front of table The stitch regulator, machine and carriage are connected by a ribbon cable that has 3 connectors (Figure 3, page 9).
  • Page 12 NOTE: Connector A is a serial port connector and connects at position 31 as seen in (Rear Diagram C, #31 page 7). Connec- tor B connects to the machine stitch regulator assembly (Y-Motion) shown in (Back-Side Diagram B, #14 page 7), as well as (Figure 4).

  • Page 13: Installing Front Handles

    Installing Front Handles CAUTION: Unplug the Baby Lock Crown Jewel from the electrical outlet. All power to the machine must be turned off when install- ing the front handles. Failure to do so can result in damage to the machine.

  • Page 14: Installing Rear Handles

    NOTE: After the handles have been completely installed and the cluster with your fingertips. plugged in, test them by turning the Baby Lock Crown Jewel on/ off switch to “on”. The handles will run a self-test by briefly display- ing their version during boot up, and then the LED lights on the NOTE: Do not grasp the LEDs themselves, as front handles will illuminate.

  • Page 15: Inserting (Or Changing) The Needle/Needle Guide

    Inserting (or Changing) the Needle IMPORTANT NOTE: Check the needle to Move the needle bar to the Sight confirm it is fully inserted. The needle bar has highest position by turning the Opening a sight opening above the needle bar clamp handwheel counterclockwise screw—make sure the needle is touching the or pressing the needle up/down...

  • Page 16: Installing The Power Cord

    Installing the Installing the Power Cord Thread Mast Locate the threaded hole on top of the machine NOTE: Please make sure that the machine is near the rear by the handwheel. The thread mast in the “O” or off position before plugging comes with the washer and nut on it.

  • Page 17: Laser Stylus Safety And Use Guidelines

    Power is supplied to the laser when it is plugged To make an adjustment, simply loosen the black into the Baby Lock Crown Jewel. Be sure the laser thumbscrews, position, and retighten. is attached to the Baby Lock Crown Jewel and...

  • Page 18: Installing The Laser Stylus

    Installing the Laser Stylus then place the washer under the nut and onto the machine against the painted surface. The CAUTION LASER SAFETY: washer protects the painted surface when the nut When using the Laser Stylus, basic safety is tightened. Tighten the post clockwise until it is precautions should be taken.

  • Page 19: Threading The Machine

    Threading the Machine Slide thread (cone or spool) onto spool pin, NOTE: The purpose of this guide is to prevent insert the thread through the thread-mast eyelet loops of thread coming off of the thread cone from back to front, continuing to thread guide A. and going into the top tension as a knot, causing thread breakage and bad tension.
  • Page 20 (F in Detail 3). to easily fall between the tension discs. This is not the case with the Baby Lock Crown Make sure the thread is following the groove Jewel quilting machine. Consequently the top...

  • Page 21: Bobbin And Thread Tension Adjustments

    Bobbin and Thread Tension Adjustments Bobbin Tension NOTE: See pages 37-39 for winding the bob- bin. The bobbin tension is the foundation tension for the entire machine. Always set the bobbin Insert Bobbin into Bobbin Case tension first. CAUTION: To prevent personal injury always To test that bobbin tension is correct, hold the bobbin case in the palm of your hand with the turn off the power switch while inserting and/or open end facing up –...
  • Page 22 Insert Bobbin Case into Machine Turn off the power switch. Do not lift the lever on bobbin case. Fit the bobbin case onto the hook spindle in the machine. Rotate the casing until the open throat keys into the middle notch in the hook. Push the bobbin case inward until it clicks into place (Figure 14).

  • Page 23: Maintenance

    One of the joys of quilting with the Baby Lock Cleaning the Touch Screen Crown Jewel is its ability to handle many differ- Display ent types of threads.

  • Page 24: Using The Touch Screen Displays On The Handlebars

    Using the Touch Screen Displays on the Handlebars The Baby Lock Crown Jewel has touch-screen displays Manual on the front and rear handlebars. Settings may be changed at either of these locations. Stitch Mode Speed Regulated Main Screen Manual Mode Screen...
  • Page 25 “Precision” regulated mode or in “Cruise” rregulated mode. (Figure 22) Precision If “Precision” mode is selected, the Baby Lock Crown Jewel will begin stitching only after the SR Style Figure 22 Start button is pressed and you begin to move the machine.
  • Page 26 Cruise SR Style When “Cruise” mode is selected, when you press “Start” on the handles the machine will immedi- ately begin stitching at the percent speed indi- Precision cated below the “Cruise” button. The “Cruise” speed is the minimum speed the machine will stitch, regardless of how slow you are pushing the machine.
  • Page 27 LED Lights More The LED modules in the handlebar are grouped in two Main Lights sets. One set consists of the three LED modules on Sound each side of the machine, closest to the machine body. These six (total) LED modules are the “Spotlights”. (Figure 25) The remaining modules are the “Main Diagnostics Lights”.
  • Page 28 Th e “Motor” Sensor test can help you determine Back Main whether there may be a problem with the Baby Lock Crown Jewel motor. Slowly rotating the handwheel Figure 33 should result in a pulsing audible “beep. ” If you get a constant solid “beep”...
  • Page 29 Diagnostics The “Speed” Sensor test can help you determine Motor Speed Sensor Test whether or not there is a problem with the Baby Lock Remove bobbin case and top thread. Crown Jewel speed sensor. Before performing this test, Clear all objects from the needle area.
  • Page 30 Passing Test: Baby Lock Crown Jewel is reading the buttons as they The name of the key is shown below. are pressed. When a key is pressed the name of the key Failing Test: that is pressed will appear in the white box.
  • Page 31 Lifetime counter cannot be reset and should be used as an indicator to determine when general machine maintenance should be performed by an authorized Baby Lock Retailer. (Figure 40) Press the “Main” button to return to the “Regulated” or “Manual” menu screen or the “Back” button to return to the “More”...

  • Page 32: Baby Lock Crown Jewel Regulator Setup

    3 or 4 seconds, the machine will stop and position the needle. In Precision Regulated If you leave the Baby Lock Crown Jewel in Precision Regulated mode, the needle pauses when you stop mov- mode with the start indicator box green and do not move the ing the machine and will begin stitching again machine for two minutes, the system will “time-out”...

  • Page 33: To Begin Quilting

    Gripping the handlebars too tightly may cause In order to become comfortable with the free body tension resulting in poor quilting quality. The Baby Lock motion of the Baby Lock Crown Jewel, users Crown Jewel, combined with the Grace Pinnacle Frame system can begin with a few “beginner”...

  • Page 34: Troubleshooting

    Use only needles installed improperly authorized by Baby Lock. • Always change the needle if the needle has struck any hard object such as a straight pin, etc. The tip of the needle can become damaged or burred, resulting in fabric damaged as well as skipped stitches and thread breakage.
  • Page 35 Problem Cause Correction THE NEEDLE The needle is bent or • Replace or correctly change the needle. Make sure that the needle is BREAKS not installed properly pushed up into the needle bar clamp until it can go no farther (visu- ally check that it is up to the top of the stop/sight opening above the needle bar clamp screw).
  • Page 36 Problem Cause Correction • If using short staple threads, inexpensive or industrial threads or “Fuzz” caught under TENSION coated threads, lint and other material will build up under the the tension spring in IS POOR tension leaf spring and begin to lift the spring, reducing the spring’s the bobbin ability to compress against the thread. By inserting a needle under the spring and clearing out the lint, the bobbin tension will return fairly close to its preset tension.
  • Page 37 Troubleshooting continued Problem Cause Correction • Decrease the pressure on the hopping foot by loosening the nut at HOPPING Quilt sandwich is too FOOT WON’T thick (i.e. denim with the base of the hopping foot shaft. Adjust to the proper height. CLEAR SEAMS thick batting) IMPORTANT NOTE: When tightening the nut on the hopping foot shaft be careful not to tighten so tight that it rotates the bar.
  • Page 38 Problem Cause Correction • The alarm indicates that the motor is not responding properly to MOTOR STALL Motor Stall the speed controls. This may be caused by a thread lock, mechanical obstruction or an electrical problem. • Clear any thread from the bobbin area only after turning off the power to the machine. • Turn the handwheel and check for tightness. • The motor stall may re-occur if it is caused by an electrical problem. Turn the machine off and then back on again to reset the computer. NEEDLE Thread cones/spools • Look for severe twisting of threads when approximately 12 to 15...
  • Page 39 (broken thread). • Needle plate damage. Hook damage. • Broken needles or damaged needle bar clamp. • Check the communication cables that connect the handlebars to Cable unplugged NO VISIBLE the casing of the machine to make sure they are secure. DISPLAY * If the troubleshooting above does not eliminate the problem, please consult your authorized Baby Lock Crown Jewel retailer.

  • Page 40: Variable Speed Bobbin Winder

    Variable-Speed Bobbin Winder Parts Bobbin Winder A. Thread-stand base B. Thread mast C. Spool pin D. Pre-tension assembly E. Tension discs F. Split post G. Power switch H. Variable-speed knob I. Bobbin-winder-shaft oiling point J. Phillips screw for bobbin capacity adjustment K. Phillips screw for bobbin even-fill adjustment Figure 1...

  • Page 41: Bobbin Winder Instructions

    Bobbin Winder Instructions Loosen the small screw in the thread stand base. Install the Push bobbin securely on the split post. thread mast, making sure the top of the mast is centered over the silver spool pin, then tighten the small screw (Figure 2). NOTE: This should be a tight fit—if too loose the bobbin will slip and wind unevenly NOTE: If the mast is not centered over the spool pin, thread...
  • Page 42 Phillips screw Oiling Silver point thumb lever Figure 6 Figure 7 Push the silver thumb lever down toward the bobbin and the motor will engage (Figure 6). SERVICE: The bobbin winder shaft is factory lubricated with When the bobbin is full the motor will synthetic grease, however if it becomes dry or noisy you will automatically shut off.

  • Page 43: Optional Accessories

    Optional Accessories Channel Lock Ruler Base Place the channel lock on either of the front wheels Using rulers with a quilting machine requires a of the machine as shown in (Figure 1) (not on the wider base than the machine has. The ruler base carriage wheels).

  • Page 44: Stylus And Adaptor Plate With Holder

    Wing Bolts and Washers Carriage Bolts Installing the Stylus Holder The stylus holder has two threaded holes. Place Stylus Holder the stylus holder under the adaptor plate and align Adaptor the two holes with the long slot in the adaptor Stylus Plate Wing Bolt...

  • Page 45: Horizontal Spool Pin

    Optional Accessories continued Crown Jewel Micro Handles Horizontal Spool Pin Enjoy complete precision while long arm quilting. An optional horizontal spool pin is available These centralized, adjustable handles fit perfectly for metallic and specialty threads wound on a in between the existing handles on the Crown spool (not a cone).
  • Page 46 English BLCJ18 Printed in the USA...

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