If you don't care about the embroidery part, Viking just came out with two new quilting machines that are great. I think the name is Opal on both of them. They are around or 1,000 I think. I have a couple of Vikings and they are great. I have one that is from in the 90's and even though it is hard to find parts for it, it can and has been done if your repair person knows how to look. Maybe you just need another repair person to check it out.