Bad Pinkie, Bad, Bad, Girl
I’ve taken such good care of you. Bill rescued you from the thrift store. We cleaned you. We oiled you with Ballistol. We brought you in from the cold garage.
Why do you keep misbehaving?
I need to make a sample so everyone can see how great you are. Even at your age, you still have so much potential. Please be a good girl and stop jamming. I want to show our visitors what you can do.
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I’d love to have a picture of my solution. Something simple to share should your Passap jam when yarn is added.
But I don’t. I’m totally frustrated and the Pinkie has gone back to the garage so the Duo 80 can come inside.
The locks glide effortlessly across the needle bed in all letter settings without yarn. When yarn is added, it jams part way in with every pass. If I wiggle the locks back and forth, I can eventually get them to move. I’m not even using the pushers. They are in rest position with the N/X lever in N. I’ve changed strippers. I’ve made sure the yarn is flowing freely. I’ve tried weights. Nothing works.
My only guess is that the lock needle plates need to be screwed down a bit. They seem awfully loose in the N position compared to the plates on the Duo 80. It is not a lot of play, but I’m wondering if the tension added by the yarn is causing the plates to slowly shift out of alignment as the locks move across the bed, jamming the needle butts into the plates rather than staying in their channels.
Otherwise, the jamming makes no sense at all.
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Hi. this scares me. I just acquired a pink passap duomatic. Don’t know a thing about it. no manual. Don’t know if all the tools, attachments, parts are in or on or under. It has four mast yarn - one little cylinder (grey is missing) - will need a good clean up - very dusty. … but the carriage glides. Hope it’s a good sign. Thanks for all the info you share/provide on your site - Enka.
If you haven’t seen it all ready, make sure you download my free photo tutorial on how to deep clean a passap duomatic. Here is a direct link:
http://knittsings.com/how-to-deep-clean-a-passap-duomatic/
I’ve frequently seen the Passap Duomatic 80 manual on ebay for around $5-10 US. The cover looks like the picture here:
http://knittsings.com/the-passap-duo-80/
The only difference I know of is that the Duo 80 has an HX lock setting for circular fair isle. The rest is identical.
This is a really common problem, don’t despair. It usually is a yarn problem. If you are jamming on the second row of the cast on then it is probably the yarn and Stitch size. Use 2/24 yarn( very fine ) if you are going to use the SS used in the manual. Otherwise you need to start your cast on with SS 2.5,3.75,then to 4. Often one tends to think we can use the same size yarn on the PASSAP that we can on the Japanese machines, but really we need to think much smaller for double bed work…SUZ
Suz,
Thank you for the suggestions. For now the Pinkie is banished to the top shelf in my closet. At the time I posted this, I couldn’t even get the lock to move across once with yarn installed. It consistently jammed about a third of the way into the pass. I agree that adjusting the yarn tension is the place I should start.
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