Originally Posted by
jaciqltznok
we all need to learn to do more ourselves and this just proves it..wow...that is a years worth of oil changed on my car!
Exactly. Two days ago I had a problem with my machine--I felt surely that it was thread stuck in the tension disks, but they make the machine almost impossible to get to. (Janome Horizon 7700). However... it is under warranty, I believe, but the authorized dealer in Poland is about 4-5 hours away. That's motivation for doing it yourself. I asked my husband to open up the top and he did. After about an hour, a magnifying glass, a flashlight, since we couldn't really get it completely open to fingers, a piece of cardboard about 1/4" wide and a pair of tweezers, I got out the clump of thread that was on the back side of the tension disks, stopping my thread from being grabbed as it went through them! I felt really good when I went to bed. My DH put the machine back together the next day.
But the motive was the cost of shipping it away, plus knowing I couldn't sew if it were not at my house PLUS, I didn't know if I could pull up the receipt in one fell swoop. I figured if I really needed it fixed, I'd just take it to a local place and pay them (and not worry about the guarantee.) Anyway, it is working beautifully again...but I've had to learn not to be so afraid of my machine--learn to take care of it and learn how it works...at least the tension/thread part.