Thanks Path49 - I don't want the high shank, so that is very good to know.
mimak - I live in rural South Dakota, and so far I've never found a machine less than 70 miles away, but that's sort of "local" around here. Most I find when I go into the Twin Cities to visit family - and that is 400 miles away, and we've gone as much as 1 hour farther away to pick up a machine.