According to Hq's site, the Avante stitches up to 2200 stitches per minute. Take 6 million, divide by 2200, you get the number of minutes it was run (2727) divide by 60 for the number of hours. (45 1/2 hours) My experience with a friend's Gammill is to run it between 50 and 75% speed. Assuming only 50% speed, is still only about 100 hours of run time. That's only 2.5 weeks for a full-time long armer running a business. My conclusion is that 6 million stitches is not many at all.