Originally Posted by
Macybaby
I got to sew on a new model Juki industrial at a recent quilt show. It's got a lot of electronics, and after having them go out after only 2 years on my domestic Juki, I'm not real thrilled with the warrenty - but they may have something different on the industrial. I still really like the Juki, but my DH really likes the Brother industrials. The Juki I tried had a servo motor.
I was super impressed with how slow it could go. Any industrial can sew your fingers off, but very few can also do the slow part. I've done factory sewing in the past so I'm use to sewing on them.
Most of them have servo motors now, which means they can pretty much all go slowly. And they have speed control, just like the semi-industrials via a rather inconvenient dial on the motor...
The warranty on the new computerized industrial Juki is ONLY 6 months! The dealer told me that they were made with more robust electronics to which I say ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
This hour, I'm thinking I'm steering more toward getting an all-mechanical industrial with just a synchronizer to facilitate needle-down. Probably in an hour, I'll have changed my mind, ha-ha.
Brothers are excellent machines. People rave about them, all the way from the bottom to the top of the line.
So which domestic Juki do you have? Hopefully, not one that I've considered....