PatTX wrote:

I thought that I first should interview repair people so as to mostly
eliminate some brands and narrow down the field that way. The lady at the
shop said not to buy Viking, Euro-something,or Simplicity, and maybe not
Singer. These ideas were based upon her hearing the repair guy cursing those
machine while trying to fix them! Oh, and the difficulty of getting repair
parts, too. She showed me a new Elna which appeared to be a clone of my
1982 Pfaff!

Have fun deciding Pat! I can report that all my Husqvarna Vikings - both
sewing machine and serger - bought about 3 years ago are good quality
and robust, and the sewing machine does a mean button hole!

HTH

Sarah