Adjusting the Dove-Tail Mounted Wide Angle Driver

The wide angle cap frame driver, if ordered with a machine, is usually adjusted to the machine already.

Should you receive multiple machines, each driver will be adjusted to one specific machine. The serial number of the machine the driver is adjusted to will be noted on the installation note in the driver box.

If you received notice with your machine that the first time installation and adjustment has already been performed, then proceed to the installation section.

If you did not receive this notice, then you must perform the following adjustment; failure to do so will result in excessive wear to the cap frame driver and reduced embroidery quality.

1. Remove the tabletop (if you have the tabletop option installed).

2. Remove the tubular support arms from the AMAYA (if they have not been removed).

3. In the Operator’s Kit, locate the special tool that will allow you to remove the standard needle plate off the machine. Locate the Raised Needle Plate in the driver box. Remove the Standard Needle Plate by loosening both screws holding it in place and assemble the Raised Needle Plate to the machine instead.
   
   

4. Take the WACF driver out of the box.  Make sure that the 3 socket-head cap screws along the interface bracket (Image A) and the 4 socket-head cap screws that hold the bearing housing (Image B) are slightly loose.

Image A

Image B

5. Move the x-carriage all the way back (towards the rear of the machine) using the AMAYA keypad.
   (Press the Hoop key then hold down the Down Arrow key ).

6. Under the cylinder bed of the AMAYA, locate the cap frame mounting brackets (see Image C below):
   
   
   
   
   
                                            Image C

7. Install the driver on the AMAYA: guide the cap driver shaft into the hole in the rear mounting bracket. At the same time, insert the driver dove-tail support bracket into the female dove-tail mounting bracket on the AMAYA.

8. Make sure that both cap support brackets are clearing the needle plate and push the driver further into the rear mounting bracket until it hits a hard-stop.
   
   
                                                 Image D

9. Tighten the thumb screws on the AMAYA's rear mounting bracket (labeled in Image C) and on the driver male dove-tail bracket (labeled in Image E).
   
   
   
                                           Image E
    

10. Move the beam forward; position the two thumbscrews located on the rear-mounting bracket over the left and right most inner mounting holes on the carriage and loosely tighten them (start one thumbscrew but do not tighten it all the way before you start the second fastener).  The thumbscrews must be screwed in straight (not at an angle) to avoid damage to the inserts in the X-carriage holes.  If there is any resistance when tightening either screw, stop, unscrew the thumbscrew and reposition before starting again.  After both thumbscrews have both been started in the correct position, tighten them securely with a Phillips screw driver or 6mm Hex wrench (depending on the type of thumbscrews your driver has) to prevent the thumbscrews from coming loose.
    
    
    
                                             Image F

11. Position the driver cap support on the needle plate. Center them front to back and make sure that the raised portion of the needle plate is positioned exactly in-between the two support brackets (see Image D).

12. Move the two support brackets as far down towards the needle plate as possible without them touching the needle plate itself (rule of thumb: leave a gap between the support brackets and the needle plate surface that equals approximately the thickness of a sewing thread).

13. Tighten the bottom left and the upper right socket head cap screw on the driver bearing.
    
    
    
                                           Image G

14. Move the beam with the driver backward and forward. The driver should move without any restrictions.

15. Tighten the remaining two socket head screws on the driver bearing.
    
    
    
                                           Image H

16. Move the driver from the left to the right side. Should a gap between the driver bar and the driver cylinder open up you need to loosen the 3 screws along the interface bracket even more.

17. Move the driver to the center of the carriage (left to right) so that the two red marks on the driver bar and the driver cylinder line up to each other.
    
    
                                           Image I

18. Level the driver bar; make sure that there is no gap between the driver bar and the driver cylinder at this center position and tighten the socket head cap screw located at the center of the interface bracket.
    
    
                                           Image J

19. Move the carriage with the driver all the way to the left.  Make sure that there is no gap between the driver bar and the driver cylinder at this position and tighten the socket head cap screw located on the right side of the interface bracket.

20. Move the carriage with the driver all the way to the right. Make sure that there is no gap between the driver bar and the driver cylinder at this position and tighten the socket head cap screw located on the left right of the interface bracket.

21. The driver should now move without any restrictions from right to left and front to back. The driver bar should always contact the driver ring.

22. Your Wide Angle cap frame driver is fully adjusted and ready for use.