thanks, yes, it's doing fine, as long as i remember all it's quirks.
after i got my quilt turned, i was forgetting to use silicone on my good quality cone of thread. and so it was breaking. H ground a fine little burr out of the feed dog cover, i taped the speed control tight to the back of the machine,---and i think the speed increased 2 fold, when i did this.--and then i covered the needle threader with a knot of matarial. have any of you other ladies done this? anyway, it seemed to find it's grove, or i did. don't know what, but after H went to bed, i pretty much finished the quilt. I'm doing the loop over, loop below quilting. that's my old stand by design.