[hulrek]

Im looking to buy a PR600 and have the opportunity to get one with + 100 million stitches and + 3500 hours. Its it normal used for this machine. Is it on the end of the line or does it might still have many good years in it? I know stitches count a time can only be one indicator. The machine seem to have ad regular maintenace but havent been working for over a years. how much do you think a machine like this worth used in 2017??

Also curious if you do embroidery on Flat bill/brim cap like flexfit 110 or new era cap. I know you cant get that close to the brim but what about the side of the cap. How can you embroidery be on them, 5 inch?? I have problem with a toyota 830ad where the cap brim hit the machine frame so I cant do more than 4in wide. But on regular cap up to 5.5 inch. Here a picture of the problem. Worry I wont be able to embroided my 2 x 4.5 inch logo on the PR600 on flatbill cap.

Thanks for your time and usefull infos
Sorry for the bad english, I'm french.

 

[tfalk]

Pretty sure you will have problems with flat bill caps on the Brother machines... I haven't tried one but the design of the cap frames is not conducive to flat bill hats... If you are using the stock OEM cap frames, you cannot get closer to the brim than about an inch. Is it a PR600 or PR600II? The PR600 uses the PRCFH2 frame which is 130x55mm, roughly 2 tall by 5 wide but reality is 1.95 tall. Some of the 600II models may have or are capable of being upgraded to use the PRCFH3 frames which are 130x60mm or roughly 2.4 tall by 5 wide.

If you already have the machine with the cap frame setup, hooptech makes what they call their Dream Frame and an adaptor which will let you sew closer to the brim but I think it would still hit the back of the head... I have a dream frame for my PR1000 but have not tried the adapter yet...

Sounds a bit high on stitch count but those machines are at least 10 years old already... I had 2, one had 50 million and the other had 60 million on them and they stitched fine. If you can see the machine running, listen to see if the head is developing a bit of a clunk as it stitches... if it doesn't, it's 'probably' OK... If you can hear it clunking, I'd have a tech look at it...