Many forum members guided me through the assembly and set up of my long arm machine. When I ran into a problem, Babs, Sandy, or Denis provided some great advice, tutorials, or online resources. I've quilted about 6 or 7 quilts so far, and I had a very vexing problem with the machine. It is stitch regulated with encoders. When it came to one section of the frame, it would just stop, like the encoders went out to lunch. If I went across this section very quickly, or from right to left ( it only happened when going from left to right), it didn't misbehave. I got advice from two dealers about possible solutions, neither of those ideas worked. So I removed the offending encoder, which had two spacers holding it in place. I put the spacers back on in a different configuration, and voila, the vexing problem went away!

I'm feeling kind of smugly proud of myself for fixing this myself! But more than that, I just glad the problem went away, because it made the quilting very bad in that place on the quilts. Whew!