Originally Posted by
Weezy Rider
No to drop in bobbins. I've used both types and front and side loaders are easier to deal with when your machine really gets hung up or snarled.
I read somewhere, maybe this message board, that the front loading bobbins are a lot more reliable. I didn't make a note to remember it because I have an old Viking with a frt loading bobbin and I'm not planning on a new machine.
I will say that this old mechanical machine is VERY reliable, for whatever reason, and seems to do whatever I ask it to do. I even fmq with a regular ol' open toe foot!
Changing the bobbin if it's not recessed into a table is easy enough, but my machine's been in a recessed table from day 1. I manage and when and it it comes the time I can't I'll put it up on a table.