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7 Repairing the knitting machine
Needle selection displacement
Preparations
7.6.2 Preparations
Stop the carriage after the left reversing position.
With tandem mac
hine: Couple carriage narrow.
Cast-off the stitches on both needle beds.
Remove the needle brushes on the front and rear carriage part.
The test series is required for all the impulse sensors of the ma
chine
- with
a tandem machine there are four impulse sensors.
For the check you need a small knitting program.
Example
for a 3-system machine.
Line 30: Check of the front impulse sensor
Line 40: Check of the rear impulse sensor
If you have a 2-system machine simply leave out the indication "S3
" for
the
third knitting system in the lines 30 and 40.