My thanks to all of your for your help. I followed all of your advise and it is now afternoon on Monday and my machine is finally sewing like it should. I bought my serger in 1991 and inherited my sewing machine from my mom who bought it in the 50's. I have decided to buy the Brother CS6000i and the Brother Serger 1034D and keep my older ones for spares. Hopefully, I won't have the stress and frustrations and can just enjoy sewing my quilts and other projects.