Oooooooh, such a good read this morning. You lucky girl.....I would give my eye teeth (if I still had them) for one of these machines. My son and I have just been through a re-building process with one of these motors and it turned out great with all the help from some members of this board, and a suggestion of a tutorial to upload (download, whichever). They are so unbelievably quiet....For a comparison, someday when you are out on your own just messin' around, go in a sewing machine store and try out a few of the new ones. Just don't indicate that you are "just looking around"--the salespeople will suddenly not see you at all.....