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   MegVT | Jul 10, 2005 01:55pm | #1

   A number of years ago I purchased one for my sister-in-law.  She was without a machine, and I took the opportunity to send her one of those 'school machines' advertised in the newspaper.

   What a mistake.  She spent more money trying to have it repaired (and she's a very accomplished mechanical sort herself) than it cost to buy it.  It wouldn't keep the timing correct, and in the end, she placed it in a dumpster. 

   I wouldn't spend a red cent on another Necci machine.

   Meg

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   Welcome | Jul 12, 2005 08:19pm | #2

   Ditto the above experience.  What a useless, frustrating, wimp machine! It balks at going through anything heavier than a handkerchief and creates maddening jams at the slightest hint of work. I spent more time messing with pulling it apart and straightening it out than I ever did actually sewing on it.  My BP is up just thinking about it!

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   Teaf | Jul 16, 2005 01:55am | #3

   Ditto from someone whose family has owned dozens of sewing machines-- Necchi spells "disaster"! Sleek and beautiful, like Italian race cars, the ones we had were tempermental beasts that refused to cooperate on the simplest projects; the correct bobbins and needles were hard to find, too.