I was talking about that when I bought the table. The manager and I had noticed that my needle plate(?) did not seat properly in the machine. And he said that couldn't be fixed. He tried to talk me into a new machine but I told him I could probably fix the problem if I was willing to tape it and deal with it every time I needed to get to the bobbin. I'm sure I'll get tired of it and want a new machine right after I finish buying all the accessories for this machine. Isn't that the way it always goes?