I also had a singrr confidence which I loved but recently the board went on it and the repair man said the cost to replace it is too expensive. The machine was only about six years old, not sure if it was do to the bitter cold transporting it to retreat or not. It was in my trunk both coming and going in a fabric carring case pushed way to the seat part of the trunk and had the quilt I was working on stuffed around it in the case. It was only in the trunk for an hour each way and the next day I turned it on and just got a horrible sound and nothing would work.