20 Most Recent Brother XL-5500 Mechanical Sewing Machine Questions & Answers

Your bobbin is probably too loose. When you set a new bobbin, stop every now and then and try with your fingers nail if it's nice and tight enough. Not extremely tight, but tight, not loose and moves easily when you set your finger between the threads.

With most fabrics (99%) the plate is fine at the the top position, just with very thick and "fragile" (satins etc) you might need to adjust it.

Settings: Tightest tension for the thinnest materials, more loose for the thicker ones, better have a test piece, it rarely goes under 5 anyway.

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The manual should cover this. Here is a copy via the Internet. Brother XL 5500 Operation Manual

You are not making it very easy to help you. I think you should talk to a person who sews, because I never heard of someone who cannot understand a manual. Call Brother at 1-877-276-8437.

Go back to your instruction manual, some available online. to Re-thread the machine completely and make sure you are threading correctly. If that's not it, you may have thread jammed in a mechanism and it needs a technician's tools to get at it properly. Cheers, Kelly Embroidery Services San Diego, CA

Sounds like a broken belt, not something you can do yourself. You need to bring it in for service.

Usually when your bottom thread is messed up, it is because your top thread is not threaded correctly.

We can sew about 2 to 4 inches then the thread that goes through the needle snaps off & when you examine the back of the material the bottom stitch is loose. What is wrong?