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You all know Paco, my embroidery machine. Well he developed a very nasty case of the hiccups.
The tension went out of whack. I did the adjustments suggested in his manual, nothing changed. So I called the local Brother repair place, explained what was going on. She promptly tells me it will cost $124.00 to look him over and fix the problem. And that their turnaround time is a week out. Well after supper, I went back into to have a chat with ol' Paco. I took the bobbin area apart once again. Set the tension back to where it was originally, set the top tension back. And what do I spy?????? A tiny piece of lint the size of a little silver pinhead. Stuck between the plastic case and the metal area the thread slips through. I pulled it out with a pair of tweezers. Put everything back together, loaded a clean hoop and tried again.....SUCCESS !!! Paco no longer has the hiccups. |
Cool beans! Good for you!!! :thumbup: :thumbup:
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SO validating when that happens, when you’re able to conquer something yourself!
Jan in VA |
Viva la Paco!
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Wow, you just made $124.00 this afternoon. Great job and time to go shopping with all that money you saved.
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Congrats!
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Cool! Now what are you going to do with the money you saved??
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Congrats! I love saving money.
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Wow. Good for you. Doesn't it make you feel smart when you are able to solve a problem all by yourself? It does me.
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May I suggest you spend your savings on fabric.
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Bravo!!!! Proud of ya!
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Wonderful!! Doesn't that make you feel great??? :)
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Good Job!
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Woohoo now you get to reward yourself and paco to a trip to the fabric store!!!!
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Do you contract yourself out? hehe
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Originally Posted by Jabear617
Cool! Now what are you going to do with the money you saved??
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Excellent, now spend 1/2 of that on fabric and you're still ahead:>
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Congratulations, you got to save $$$$, I am so proud of you!
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Good job now you can go shopping for some more fabric.
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Great job !
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That's good thinking! Amazing what we can do when $$$ is involved.
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Good for you.
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Awesome! I am sure my machine is due for a cleaning as well!!
I'm glad you went back in there to have a chat with Paco.. and that he coughed up his hairball! :D |
isn't it wonderful when we can fix our own problems!! :-D
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That was a nice payday. $124 in your pocket instead of the fix it guy. Sometimes we can fix things if we just try.
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Originally Posted by littlehud
Wow, you just made $124.00 this afternoon. Great job and time to go shopping with all that money you saved.
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Awesome. It is always a good feeling when you can fix matters yourself and also save some cash on top of it! Great work! :)
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Awesome...sounds like a wonderful excuse for adding to your fabric stash...all that money saved, come on, you know you deserve to reward yourself...lol
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Woooooo! Way to be! :D
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There is no better incentive to try harder then to save money and time!!! You are the winner this time! Congratulations!!!! :thumbup: :D
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Thats AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL, now you can buy more fabric for Paco!
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Congratulations on solving your Paco problem. It is wonderful when we can do good things ourselves and not be without our machines.
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Originally Posted by littlehud
Wow, you just made $124.00 this afternoon. Great job and time to go shopping with all that money you saved.
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Don't you just love it when that happens? It usually pays to put something aside for a while then try again. Amazing what you can find out then.
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Thanks everyone,
I am pretty pleased with myself. Paco is computerized so it's rather scary for me to even go after him with a set of tools......LOL I hate to start messing with their brain pans (LOL) and the tensions on either machine. But I save all the manuals and books that come with them so I can at least find the default setting. I really didn't care for her attitude anyways when she found out I didn't buy the machine from her. I had gone into her shop when I was looking for an embroidery machine, but she kept steering me to a more expensive model with stuff I didn't want or need. So I ended up buying Paco from a store in New York, where the gentleman who took my order was extremely polite. I had called him a couple of times to ask questions each time he was a gentleman. |
Good for you. It seems every time I have problems, it's with the bobbin!
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Originally Posted by grammyp
May I suggest you spend your savings on fabric.
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Originally Posted by inletjerry
Originally Posted by grammyp
May I suggest you spend your savings on fabric.
I love it LOL |
I'll bet that felt so good!!!!! YAY for you
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hurray for Paco!!!!
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