June 27th, 2008, 04:27 PM
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Re: Best Machine?
of course, i can support my opinion. the older melcos im not going to complain about they're pretty good machines.. its one word that comes to mind. Amaya the embroidery machine that can do everything but can actually virtually do nothing. ill start with the construction of the machine 98% plastic components the other 2 percent what seems to be cheap white metal. secondly the perfected actifeed system that is supposedly better, ill tell you something i've been operating embroidery machines for along time and not any machine i have ever seen has broken so many threads as the amaya. ive personally owned 3 of these machines so someone cant tell me i got a bum machine because 3 is just ridiculous. the first day i had it the control panel was half falling off from operation. The first one i owned was alright for a few months only a few minor problems. but than thread break after thread break. the technician from melco spent well over 3 weeks trying to figure out the problem with the machine. the problem was finally fixed . something melted in the back of the machine.!!!! plastic parts again. so i bought another one. 3 days later same thing. thread break thread break thread break. technician comes out same problem!!
so theyre all fixed up now. mind you while this happened melco released a new version of the amaya os which was a little buggy. So i would be half way through a design and the machine would disconnect from the computer. what the hell is that. So i bought a 3rd one mind you by this time im getting pretty stupid for buying these machines but i gave it one last shot. the first day i had it the machine had a stepper error. it would sew all over the hoop when this error would happen. to top it all off while the third machine was screwed up my other two were also broken with a registration problem. so i had no machine. and no technician to be found. Not to also mention when you buy this machine they neglect to mention to you that when its time to add on another embroidery head its 10,000 for the software. or when you buy a used machine its i believe 300 or 600 re licensing fee for melco to support the machine. and not to mention the machine claims it can sew at 1500rpm which is the max speed but who can run a machine at its max speed anyway its like driving a car at its max speed. another thing melco doesn't mention to you is they have virtually no faith in this machine. the actifeed is the death of this machine along with the computerized presser foot which i also may add this machine only had one presser foot. 16 needles 1 presser foot. this machine attracts new people comming into this business. with all its fancy gadgets which most of the time its a waste of time. they dont work half the time.
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