My experience with lending anything is that if you get it back at all, you usually have to ask for it, and it doesn't always come back to you in the shape it was before you lent it. If it is broken, the borrower never replaces it or has it fixed properly. I have found that someone who doesn't care enough to spend their hard earned money to buy something, is not going to value something they can borrow for free. If I need something, I go buy it or do without. I no longer lend anything. If I am not willing to give it to that person, then I am not willing to lend it. That would certainly go for my machine.