Originally Posted by Geri B

I sometimes think it is a good idea, but then I think.....if this machine breaks down and cannot be repaired or too costly, and I have to but another.....the opening might accommodate it.....what if I have to do some mending or whatever and need the free arm.........my first singer many yrs ago was built into a cabinet and I loved it that way, but then free arm came along....what we sewers thought at that time was the solution to all our problems, now we are encasing them into a cabinet thus disabling this feature...or am I thinking wrong. Granted many have more than one s/m......