Switch it on and walk away. Very few thread breaks so far. If all goes well from the 6th to this evening 13th the machine would have done $1K worth of embroidery without even running it flat out. It would have worked well under 24 hours in that period. Anand Does the new XT preform better? Greg TE > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/307 - Release Date: 4/10/2006 > >