I took a bernina machine into our local dealer and we got to talking about the old 830's that are still so popular and fetching a good price on e-bay. He said it is getting more difficult to get parts when repairing the 830's. He said machine companies cannot keep manufacturing parts for these older machines, it's costly and they have other models they have to concentrate on. It's too bad, but I can understand where he's coming from. I owned 2 of the old 830's but sold them. I'm currently in love with a Singer 301A and have been using that for my quilting.