Just got my Janome 4800 back from the shop - I bought it in 2007 & was supposed to take it in for a checkup (free) a year later ... no I didn't - It kept jamming as I was trying to hem a pair of jogging pants. Got a huge lecture when I dropped it off and again when I picked it up to change the needle a lot more often than I had been doing. Repairman pointed out an article about it, cashier pointed out the same article ... the funny thing is I could have sworn that was the second thing I did after I rethreaded the machine when it started giving me problems.
I was told the machine needles are now manufactured out of much softer metal that in the old days.
I'll be changing needles a lot more often from now on ... needles are cheap!
Last edited by SuzzyQ; 05-12-2013 at 08:55 AM.
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