This has been a wonderful read this morning, as I make an attempt at getting my day started (coffee cup and computer up and going before I get my mind fully awake); I wish I had someone's repair person nearby (I think she is in FL). Repair people are might near extinct anymore. I do have one person that I can depend on for my Gammill (need him at least once a year, even though Gammill is supposed to be perfect); but for the others, the expense of having someone come out to correct one thing is not something that I want to do, so I set the machine aside, and wait to call him--his calls start at $120 and go from there. And I am not a person to destroy a sewing machine when I sit down to sew--I do all the right things, sewing machines just have their cranky moments, and I am not too patient with cranky moments with a machine when I have got my mind set on a certain amount of sewing I need to get done today. Know what I mean.