Clean your machine regularly :

Brother Galaxie 3000

Each brand of machine has a section on cleaning in its own user manual.
Please read those instructions in your own user manual.
The pictures and machine used here is a Brother Galaxie 3000 and is merely a guideline.

How often you clean your machine depends on how much you use it,
and what material you are embroidering onto.
Towels shed a lot of lint/fluff and some tear away stabilizers as well.
A guideline that was recommended to me, which I find works very well:
- is clean after at least every 3 hours of embroidery.

Make sure the power is turned off before you start,
and that the needle bar is in its highest position.

Parts that will be removed in this demo:

Screws, Needle, Needle Plate, Bobbin,

Race/Inner Rotary Hook

Terminology for parts
Balance wheel Race or inner rotary hook lip or shelf of Race
Yellow arrow is pointing to the tip (notch) of the outer rotary hook (shuttle)

The Blue arrow is pointing at a spring

Always observe the placement/position of each item before you remove them.

Removing the needle plate

A coin is perfect to loosen the screws with.

Remove the plate by lifting it slightly and sliding it out to the right.

Remove the needle by loosening the black screw.

Remove the bobbin

Turn the balance wheel towards the front of the machine, to align the notch of the shuttle (Red Arrow)  with the right tip of the Race (inner rotary hook) (Yellow Arrow).

 To Remove the Race, push it gently towards the back,

and then lift the edge nearest to you.

Oh, horrors, look at this mess.

Use a paintbrush to loosen and remove the fluff/lint.

You can also use a vacuum cleaner to suck the lint up.

Slowly turn the balance wheel towards the front of the machine,  to turn the outer rotary hook/shuttle so you can clean all the crevices.

Before placing the Race back , make sure the alignment is as it was when you started.

Lip/shelf of the Race is to the left of the silver spring.

Race is  back in place

Place the plate back

Place the screws back

Use your finger to guide and tighten the screws initially and then use the coin for the last turn or two.

Place the needle back

Everything back in place

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