Clean your machine regularly:

Bernette Deco 600

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 Deco 600 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.
This has definitely prolonged the life of my machine, which has
worked very hard and is seven years old now. It is still purring everyday.

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 Plate, Bobbin, Race/Inner Rotary Hook

Removing the needle plate

A coin

is perfect to loosen the screws with.

Remove the bobbin

Remove the inner rotary hook (Race)

by lifting the edge nearest to you.

Oh, what fluff/lint.

Use a paintbrush

to loosen and remove the fluff/lint

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.

lip/shelf on

race (inner rotary hook)

 

Before placing the race back , make sure the needle is in the highest position.

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.

 

Try and avoid breaking needles at all.

An interesting photo of what can happen when a needle breaks. The Needle actually pierced the Race (Inner rotary hook.) This is minor damage, and not bad since this Race is seven years old.

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