when i first started my business (in 1999) one of my initial purchases was a 1-head embroidery machine (it's called a 1-head becuz it can do 1 piece at a time). over the years i've added multi-head machines and always kept my original 1-head - that sucker just kept going and going. over the last few years the display screen has acted up a bit, but becuz of the age of the machine you can not get parts and guys online that claim they can fix the malfunctioning part have rather underwhelming reviews. i had found some bandaids to keep the screen working but earlier this year it got to the point that i had to get another 1-head machine.
i asked my supplier what i should do with my old machine. his suggestion was to pull out and save any motors and computer cards (becuz i could sell those) and then take everything else to the dump. ugh - it bugged me that i'm throwing out a $26K machine just becuz of a bad display screen - it's like garbaging a car just becuz the head light is broken. i've still held onto the original 1-head (mostly becuz life has been just too busy to disassemble it).
a couple weeks ago a buddy came over and i showed him the new 1-head and then we got talking about the old 1-head. he asked to see it and what the display screen was doing - so i showed him. he wanted to take the computer card that has the display screen is attached to it to work to check a few things - i figured sure... why not... it's not like it works now.
he examined the card under a microscope and could see that lots of the soldering was cracked or broken, so he had one of his guys fix all that stuff and got the card back to me.
i put the card back into the machine yesterday and it works!! i'm so pumped!!
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bc-chris, on Flickr