I know how you feel. I have a Jannome, 199.00$, LEARNED IT FORWARSDS AND BACKWARDS, and every time it needs adjusting, it's another $89.00, I could buy a new one but I don't want to have to learn a new machine. We are prisoners to our machines and the repairman. BooHoo....I was lucky though, my DD came and worked on mine and fixed it for me. I call her my little (40 yr ol) tecky..A screw had fallen out, due to my machine quilting, and she got it back in, we put a spot of locktite on it so maybe that won't happen again...