Hey Kip, I worked on the Melco EMC/10T for about three years, If I can help you at all, just let me know. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brookside Designs To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 7:44 PM Subject: [amayausers] New to Amayas - Did We Make A Mistake? Hello All - We just purchased three new Amaya's and are having a dickens of a time getting them to run without any threads, needles or plastic parts breaking! For the past five years we've been using a Barudan 1-head machine and it was time for us to upgrade our capacity. My wife does the majority of the embroidering and she wanted the Amaya's. I didn't question this and we went that route after seeing them run at a show. We've had them for about 10 days now. My question to everyone is how long does the 'learning curve' last until we can start running reliable production. We're a very small shop in the fact that it's only my wife and me. We've dedicated about five 12 hour days now of running designs that we've already had set up for our Barudan machine so that they look just as good coming from the Amaya's. (I was really hoping for better, but I'll settle at this point). We really can't afford to spend much more 'playing' time with them. Can anyone who was an establish embroiderer before purchasing their Amaya's lend us any insight? Kip Biddle Brookside Designs