Tips and Tricks

Yarn

Tested:

Yarn Thickness Nm 3 to Nm 4 (150m/50g)

Nylon or cotton
You get about 100 rows at 60 needles/row out of 50g
Nice look, no stretching
Set the Tension Dial to 10
Problems:
- Sometimes, the contrast yarn doesn’t get picked-up by the needles –> check every row!
- Sometimes, the yarn gets tangled in the gears, see troubleshoot

Yarn Thickness Nm 7 (350m/50g)

Nylon or cotton
Easy knitting
Gets a bit stretched
Set the Tension Dial between 3 and 6
Problems:
- Caused by the stretching of the knitted work (because of the smaller stitches), there are very long unknitted contrast yarns on the backside. Better knit with KC(II), so you have less unknitted yarn on the backside.

Sometimes, when you knit a bit to fast, or with a wrong tension selection, the yarn gets tangled in the gears under the carriage. To prevent this: Knit slow and always have a look if the needles are open and the yarn is not too tensed. If the carriage gets struggled a bit: STOP. Now take a close look on the situation from the bottom. Maybe you can loosen the gears a bit and release the yarn from its impasse. Don’t forget to tighten the gears again. If this doesn’t help: Release the yarn feeding unit from the carriage, cleanup the situation and put it on again.
Always change the yarn on the left side
If your yarn ends, DO NOT attach a new yarn with a knot.

Open the case
Place the machine and fix it with the table clamps
Remove the carriage lock and set up the sinker plate assembly on the carriage
Set up the yarn tension unit and insert the extension rails
Feed the main yarn into the yarn tension unit
Set the arrow mark on the yarn disks according to the thickness of your yarn

Now your Setup should look like in this picture:

TODO: Picture of whole Machine

For information on how to use the AYAB Control software, see Software

Put the carriage on the right side of the machine
Bring the required needles to position B
Setup the carriage (Selection Knob on N.L., Front Knobs on W.T., left Knob on N)
Bring every second needle to position D
Put the main-yarn into the yarn feeder A and select a tension on the Tension Dial according to your yarn thickness (1 for very thin yarn, 10 for thick yarn)
Lay the Yarn over the needles in position D and holt it with your left hand
Pull the yarn down gently an knit from right to left very SLOWLY
Check if the yarn is on all needles and the check if all needles are open
Continue knitting for 5-6 rows, still hold the yarn with your left hand
check after each row if everything is fine
Put on some weights
Return the weaving pattern lever Knob (front knob) to N
Smile and continue knitting

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Start the Job in the python-script by select menu No. 9

Be sure that the carriage is behind the left return mark
Select KC(II) on the selection Knob
Move the carriage a bit to the right passing the return mark and press Enter
If everything is fine, you should see “Ready to operate” on the screen and her a BEEP from the machine
Move the carriage to the right until you hear a second BEEP. Now the needles should be selected for the first colored row
Put the contrast yarn into the yarn feeder B
Press the MC-Button
Hold the contrast yarn with one hand and move the carriage slowly to the left until the next BEEP
Check if everything is fine with this row. Sometimes the first or last needle in D-Position don’t get the contrast-yarn
Hold the yarn with one hand for the next few rows
Continue knitting until the machine stops beeping
Remove the contrast yarn, press the Plain-Knob, select N.L. on the selection knob
Continue knitting for some rows
FINISHED

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