hmmm, I think I will go to my local Walmart and check it out...I have been looking at their brother machines in the past. I now have a viking, but I like the little table on the one brother, altho DH has cut me a plexi makeshift one for this machine. I don't take any of my machines to a quilt store for repairs/cleaning, did once and got ripped off, said cleaned, did not!!! Never went back for anything.....there are authorized sewing machine repair shops around.....and if you keep the machine's moving parts as clear of lint as you can, by compressed air, "lint mop" the thing will go for a long time.....JMHO