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List Price: $149.99
Best Price: $93.77 (new)
Availability: New (18)
Brand: Brother
Model: XL2600I
Weight: 11 pounds
Dimensions: 12.26 x 7.73 x 9.6 inches
Publisher: Brother
Release Date: 2006-10-16

Customer Review

Only 1 speed - 60 mph
by Customer A15CN75IY33KG2 at August 21st, 2008
This machine is probably great for simple purposes. I bought it to make a kite, which I thought was pretty simple. But it has two major flaws that make it totally worthless to me:

1) No way to sew slowly. It has a gas pedal of sorts. If you push it down 1/4th of the way, the machine makes a loud humming noise, but does not engage. Push it down half way and it hums angrily, but still doesn't engage. Push it down a fraction of a millimeter lower and WHAM it engages and yanks the fabric out of your hands faster than you can feed it, scrunching fabric up, and sewing all over the place. I had to do most of my sewing by cranking the manual wheel on the side so that it would go slowly enough to be useful.

2) no way to adjust lower thread tension. I had no idea I even cared about something as obscure as this, the lower tension is set at a value that should pretty much take care of things and you adjust the upper tension. But as the project wore on the lower tension got loser and loser until the sewing machine became useless. Lower tension that is too lose means lots of thread hanging loosely on the under side when you finish stitches - no matter how I set the upper tension.

So I don't recommend this sewing machine if you plan to sew anything with it. I'm sure it's great for general utility uses like fixing loose buttons and sewing extra pockets into your favorite pants or whatever.

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