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Q: What’s the difference between a great machine and a mediocre machine? A: In a lot of cases, number one it will be the brand. Number two it will be the number of stitches and functions, the reliability of the machine, how well it will handle your different types of fabrics and the techniques that you can do on it. Q: Are there any machines now that still have all metal parts? A: Every machine will still have metal parts, it’s the type of quality that the metal is. In the industry there is a type of metal we call pot metal, which is a very soft metal. So if you’re trying to do, in your case, the machine quilting, or the free-motion stippling, and all of a sudden that can jar the machine and that can knock the timing off in the machine. A lot of times it can wreck the whole outer part of the machine and they’re very difficult and not worth fixing. And today we also put in what we have are plastic gears, but they’re a high-grade Lexton, so they’re very flexible, and we have had them in machines for the past 20 years. Yes, actually these machines with those type of gear system, which you’ll find in all of your high-end machines- your Vikings, your Berninas, your Janomes, your Jukis- they all have those types of gears and have for 20 years. You want to kind of get off a bit on the whole metal aspect because we see machines that are 30 years old or even 20 years old and are all metal but they’re constantly going out of time and they’re not performing the way that they should. Click the icon below to hear the answer to the question: 
 The owner of La Mesa Sew and Vac tells all about the quality of sewing machines.
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