Yesterday, I went back to Fayetteville to pick up my Gammill quilting machine from Loving Stitches quilt shop, a Gammill dealership. It had been ready for over a week, but life intervened. (Long story...but all is okay now.) My mechanic/technician was Mr. Warren Wey, who did an outstanding job for me.
When I brought the machine in, I listed all the problems I was having with it. The most annoying was that when I stopped stitching, it kept going! The solution for that was an adjustment to the "min pot."
I was having trouble getting the needle in and out of the needle bar, so he reamed it out for me.
My machine has a vertical/horizontal lock feature, which sometimes did not hold very well. OOPS- the connector was broken for the vertical hold magnet.
My laser pointer was in pieces because its connector was broken. All fixed now!
I knew I had some threads wrapped around the wheels, but I did not know about all this thread wrapped around the shaft!
I am surprised it even ran!
Besides the problems I knew about, it turns out the hook assembly had a deep gouge, the motor drive belt was loose, there was lint all over the place... in fact, I got a four-page report with photographs of all the problems and repairs that were made.
It's a good thing I took it in to an expert to be serviced. These Gammills are workhorse machines, and I have apparently rode mine pretty hard over the last nine years!
We will take it out to Maureen's tomorrow night, where it will stay until I get a new place to live with room for a twelve-foot table.
But tonight... we are going to see the play War Horse, part of the Broadway South series at the Durham Performing Arts Center! Can't wait!
