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The machine has a cool basting feature, where the entire design is outlined with a basting stitch, sewing the fabric and stabilizer together. Works fine for 1 color, but subsequent colors don't line up. No matter what I did, the large hoop did not hold fabric or stabilizer tightly. For embroidery, stability is everything, and this didn't look good. I could easily bend the hoop using only my hand. The 2 singer ones felt like they were made out of very elastic plastic. The ones for my Brother machines can probably take a good hundred pounds of force before deforming, they feel extremely sturdy. When I pulled out the hoop, the first thing I noticed was how weak it was. Sadly, this is where I started to dislike this machine. I would say it was about 30 minutes from when I got the box to when I was ready to do the first design. My computer recognized it easily after installing the software. The embroidery module attached easily and was sturdy. Easily 4 times heavier than my LB6800PRW. Thankfully, I have a steel and oak table for this, as this machine is very heavy, it did not feel chintzy at all. When I unboxed it the first thing I noticed was how heavy it was. Sell the console cheaply to build the base, and make tons on accessories. Kind of like how the console gaming industry works. They could make so much more money by gettinga ton of machines out there and making bank on accessories. I expect companies to make money, but the markup on these must be crazy. The Singer is still overpriced for what I know it cost to make, but it was the cheapest option at about $800. The mechanics are basically the same for 4' or 12'. Granted, each step has more features, like color LCD's and the like, but I don't need that, I just want a bigger field. Brother goes from $400 for 4', to $600 for 7' to about $12k for 12'. The cost between them should be very marginal (maybe $50 besides some engineering cost). As an engineer, I know there is almost no difference between making a machine that can do a 4' field or a 10' field besides the stepper motors, some extra reinforcement on the machine and the hoops. The biggest factor on why I got this machine was the price. I never realized how necessary a thread cutter was for embroidery until I didn't have one. That seems like a really big oversight on a machine that costs $800, when my $100 machine has one. Some things I didn't like at all were that there is not an automatic thread cutter on the XL-400.

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The software on the PC controls the machine, instead of the machine controlling the machine. With the LB6800PRW, you only need to connect it to transfer the design at the beginning, but for the XL-400, it needs to be connected at all times. The machine also has to be hooked to your computer 100% of the time while stitching. One like the LB6800PRW has would probably cost about $15, but either one looked like it would have been better than the LED grid above the different stitches. This seemed like a bad idea, as an LCD nowadays would only cost about $5. The stitch selector area has a bunch of LED's over each stitch, and in embroidery mode, the LED's act as a big indicator for things. The things I didn't like about the machine specs before I used is that there is not an LCD screen or anything like it on the machine.

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The feet and needles are also interchangeable with the LB6800PRW that I already had, so that was a plus too. The XL-400 has some features that didn't matter much to me, but they sounded nifty, such as the quick threading of the machine, and the auto-tension. I wanted something like this for doing delicate fabric, as I felt that going at 350 stitches per minute was too fast for some fabric. There is also a speed controller, so that the speed at which the embroidery id done can be slowed down from maximum speed. The LB6800PRW isn't anywhere near as deep, so it is hard to sew shirts or embroider them. The SL-400 also has a deep throat, allowing bigger items to be rolled up under the machine. The alignment tools allow you to shift the placement of the design using the machine instead of physically rehooping.

Singer futura quartet troubleshooting manual#

I have tried to do manual alignment, and I can't even get close, no matter how long I try. The XL-400 brings a bigger embroidery area of 10 inches by 6 inches and the option to go to 20 inches by 12 inches by multi-hooping, using some nifty alignment tools that are built into the hoop and machine. Besides those reviews and comments, the machine had the features I most wanted. There were a decent amount of negative reviews out there that I saw, but most looked like they were from people new to sewing or embroidery where the issue was user related, not machine related. I did a bunch of looking around (literally a month of research) and finally decided to get the XL-400 Futura by Singer. I really wanted to get an embroidery machine that had a bigger embroidery field than my LB6800PRW.