i owe my son a 12 pack

A while ago I posted mentioning the new Holland 67 baler had broken a needle. Thanks for the suggestions, I checked out all of the suggestions and none of them were right. LOL The cause was my fault. I rethreaded the needle and tied the end of the twine to the undercarriage almost like always. I say almost because this time I got lazy and pulled the twine sideways out of the needle and tied it off to the undercarriage way up under the bale chamber. The resulting side pull on the needle pulled the needle sideways enough that it hit the underside of the bale chamber and broke, shearing the knotter shear pin. The plunger stop worked as it should so the flywheel shear pin sheared too. I finished the field with the neighbor's baler. I bought a new needle and installed it but didn't have hay to bale so I parked it in the shed. This evening I tried it out on some waterway hay and that side wouldn't tie for love or money and on top of it, it sheared the flywheel pin for no reason. That was caused by the timing being off one tooth and the needles not returning home soon enough so the plunger stop wasn't retracted. I fixed that but it still wouldn't tie. Needless to say I was getting frustrated. My son was out there with me so I turned the baler over very slowly while he watched the knotter and he spotted the problem, something I wouldn't have seen. The new needle was adjusted wrong and was too far up and away from the twine holder and billhook. After some loosening and tightening at the base of the needle we had it down where it should be and after that the baler kicked out 84 bales running like a Swiss watch. I told him I'm buying him a twelve pack of any beer he wants. LOL He has zero experience with a knotter but he found the problem nonetheless. The alfalfa goes down in a few days so we will test it out again in a week or ten days. Again, thanks for all the suggestions from my first post. If I have more problems some day, and I'm sure I will, those suggestions might come in handy.

Wow...who would of thought the needle would flex before the twine broke!

There was a shiny mark on the bottom of the bale chute where it hit. The needle does not go through the center of the slot in the bottom of the bale chamber. It's more to the outside of the slot. The twine must have tweaked it just enough to get it in trouble. The new knife is beefier.

1. Are you sure you have the twine routed CORRECTLY back to the twine box??
2. Are you sure you are not pulling the start of a roll of twine out of the left hand roll of twine in the twine box on either side??
3. If you first pass end of twine under the strengthening straps just behind where the needles enter you can tie them to the side or just hold them firmly as this position keeps the twine near enough to centered as the needles enter chamber, IF points one and two are correct.