Best bag making travel machine? Janome HD-3000
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Thanks for this! Would it be appropriate for sewing a thick lined, leather and duck canvas bag for an emergency kit? Or thick upholstery?
NO. The HD3000 will die much sooner by sewing anything heavy on it. As an update to this thread, I did more digging into this machine, and it is completely made of nylon. Almost every part you don't see (very cleverly hidden by Janome) is white, thin nylon. White nylon...the worst possible thing to have in a machine that is supposed to sew under load. The thing I discovered later is the worm gear, the part of the machine besides the communicator elbow, that runs the drive shaft to the head as well as the cam block functions...made of thin, hard and crack vulnerable plastic. That part is meant to be heavy tensile steel, yet this machine traded quality for failure. I also discovered this machine is built in such a way that if anything inside of it fails, you cannot economically have it repaired. Gone are the bolts that used to hold the handwheel assembly to the upper drive shafft. Now, it's attached with an elastic pin, making removal of that wheel to get at any part a whole lot more expensive. Add to that the fact that Janome has removed ALL replacement parts from its inventory in North America...things just went from bad to worse. If you want to sew this type of fabric, I recommend buying a Kenmore 158.1941 or any 158 Kenmore machine. You'll pay a whole lot less and get a whole lot more. The machine that'll give you the best needle penetration in this group of machines would be the 1802, 1914 or something like a Kenmore 16 from the 1960's. If you are able, a Gritzner Kayser Kenmore from the late 50's (a 117 series model. These machines were made from old smeltered Panzer tanks in Germany (or so says the rumour mill). They are nearly indestructible. There is the chain driven Chrysler built model 49 machine. This has a 1.5 amp motor, and will sew through railroad tracks and is affectionately known as the "Buzz Saw" in relation to the sound it makes due to the chain drive (no belts...an actual chain). It's only straight stitch, but that machine will sew and sew well. Just be careful about getting any oil on the nylon bushings on the lower drive shaft. That can and will destroy this machine, and there are no replacement parts for a machine that old.
I have a bag making business. I have both the hd 1000 and hd 3000. The 3000 is for sale.
The 1000 is my workhorse. The 1 amp motor in the 1000 machine makes a big difference.
Don't waste money on the 3000 with ,5 amps.
Thanks for the info, was thinking about buying the HD3000 but now I saw some comments underneath this post which make me think I‘d rather not do that🙈. Didn‘t know that they changed the motor. Do you know if the HD1000 still has the 1 amp motor until now?
The 1000 and 3000 both have a 1amp motor.
@@caroltee2242 apparently only the 3000 built before 2018 have a 1 amp motor (or at least that‘s what the comment secion says
Does this machine have the 1 Amp motor or the new 0.5 Amp motor? I understand the HD-3000 has changed in the last couple of years and I'd love to see a demo of the one with the smaller motor to see if it still sews through thicker material.
Derrick, this answer will have to be in two parts, as it's too long for the TH-cam algorithms to post. Apparently they don't answer posts...bad for business folks. @derrickboyd8632 asked you if this machine was manufactured with a 1.0 amp motor or the 0.5 amp motor. I'll answer a question for this gentleman, seeing as you don't reply to tough questions. @derrickboyd8632, The HD3000 and HD5000 are both equipped with an ANEMIC 0.5 amp motor. It sure will do 860 stitches per minute, and will sew a dress just fine, if that's what you're trying to sew. And it will do some regular work. What it is NOT is Heavy Duty.
The model on my HD3000 is NOT even an HD3000. It is now model 753LE, whereas the model you are probably interested in was HD3000. I have yet to see an HD5000 model tag, but I can lay down good money and bet it's also changed to an LE designation. While it's a safe bet the LE stands for LED, as in the Christmas light bulb that now (barely) lights up the needle plate on the LE model (which is NO LONGER an HD machine, trust and believe that Derrick), that designation for me means Light Edition.
I'll go on and tell you why I am now calling my bait and switch machine a Light Edition. Now...here's the rub. This motor makes the same number of stitches per minute, and Janome "claims" that it has almost the same horsepower as the prior edition. They are being honest about the number of stitches, but are lying through their corporate teeth about the torque. Want to know why? They are covering up a little secret they do not want the buying public to know about. That motor, the EXACT same model that has been used in all 0.5 amp machines for at least 35 years on all of the Kenmore and Janome machines that were designated for general purpose has had 1 "small" modification. Where once there was a sturdy aluminum cast flywheel inside the of the motor can attached to the commutator shaft (which makes the motor spin via electrical impulses from two opposing carbon brushes), there is now a WAFER THIN plastic flywheel.
With all of the weight removed from the motor, it is able to spin much faster. With the elimination of the 15 watt bulb which gave decent lighting to the Pre-2018 ACTUAL HD3000/5000, there is now an LED Christmas light. I kid you not. It's a 5mm LED bulb that cannot be changed if it blows, and LED lights do fail from time to time. In fact, there are all sorts of fails in this "new and improved (for investors in Janome ONLY, not for one of their customers)" build post 2018 753LE (do not call it the HD3000/5000 anymore, these models ceased to exist as of 2018, unbeknownst to clueless idiots like myself that bought into the Janome LIE. And it is a bald-faced lie.
I'll continue filling you in Derrick, please read on. By reducing the voltage and amperage to the light assembly, and by installing a plastic flywheel (which is the type of plastic that degrades when exposed to heat and UV, and will start to fail once it's been exposed to heat for a certain number of cycles....and this gets better, trust me on this), it allows the motor to spin at incredibly high speeds when the pedal is pushed to the proverbial metal. In fact, at any speed, this motor is making revolutions far beyond it's design limits.
What do you think happens to a tiny motor, and the copper windings are much, much smaller than on a full 1 amp motor. It heats up. People in the know call many of these new cheap Chinese manufactured motors "Heaters" for a very good reason. They heat up...a lot, and they burn out quickly because of said heat. Now...Janome still has all of the copper windings, and have not switched (yet) to the steel windings, which are what most of the Heaters use. But...with that very very thin plastic flywheel being exposed to so much heat, it will fail sooner, rather than later.
That type of plastic is notorious for becoming brittle when heated. It just dries right out. And one day, at speed, a crack will develop. And when that happens, the motor will become imbalanced, and at some point, that plastic flywheel will rip apart inside the motor can. It will take no prisoners when it does. That soft copper winding coil will immediately be hit, and likely severed, killing the motor. Or the commutator will have a couple tines ripped off of it, or some other catastrophic failure will occur. Then you're out a motor.
You can bet that won't be the only thing to fail. You see, I have torn a few older Janome/Kenmore machines apart in my time (and I tore this thing down too when I found out about that motor swap. I voided my warranty, but I don't care, I can fix my own machine, and am in the process of making this an actual HD machine again), and can tell you that Janome has been making essentially the same machines for at least 35 years. Same aluminum frames (all of the HD family have much older but identical under the skin mechanically, save for the control panels and cam stack configurations), same mechanicals, same mechanisms, same electrics, same motors, same everything. That is, until this "improvement program".
Where strong, durable plastic once existed inside these machines, now thin, so thin you can see light through each part with ease, soft, easily cracked nylon now lives. So, while someone is winding a bobbin, for example, what is happening beneath the cover of this "Heavy Duty" wonder is occurring.
Once upon a time, Janome had a wonderful bobbin winding mechanism. This mechanism was made of durable plastic with a strong steel bracket and spring mechanism (very simple) that would engage by locking itself against this strong plastic main drive wheel. Fast forward to 2018, this mechanism is now made of a much heavier aluminum cast alloy. Why? Well, it's not for durability, let me tell you. It's because this semi-automatic mechanism was designed to no longer need the manual clutch that used to need to be pulled from the inside of the main drive wheel. Pretty nifty huh? Well, not so much as it turns out.
You see, Janome, in their infinite wisdom decided to further con their customers into thinking they were buying quality at almost three times the cost of their competitions heavy duty junk options by covering up one little fact...that the ACTUAL workings inside that drive wheel that looks like the solid plastic it was always built from is now, in fact, that cheap, designed to fail (It's called Planned Obsolescence, beautifully engineered by the makers of Samsung blow itself to bits washing machines, among other such dastardly heinous act by Corporate...well, everywhere now) light, crack-worthy soft opaque nylon.
Now, don't get me wrong, nylon CAN be quite durable...when used in the right ways. For example, the gears on all of these Kenmore/Janome "hybrid" machines hold up incredibly well. That is because they use steel or aluminum cores so that they are heavily reinforced, and are known for low failure rates. This wheel, not so much. You see, by introducing this much heavier all-aluminum cast framework for the bobbin winder, they have essentially designed that main wheel to fail from fatigue. This new semi automatic clutch mechanism needs that heavy aluminum frame to literally WHACK into the thin, cheap, light and soft nylon wheel at speed (the same garbage wheel that holds your sewing machine belt,, and make no mistake, this part is absolute trash) to engage. It hits this part quite hard. And over time, you can bet your bippy that this wheel WILL fail due to structural fatigue from being hit so often with this much heavier framework.
It gets better. The elbow that connects the rods between the control panel/camstack array and the lower drive shaft was once upon a time made out of that same durable plastic that the bobbin winder frame was made from. Now...you guessed it, cheap, thin, opaque nylon. This is a high stress part, deep into the mechanicals. When it fails, and it will, take my word for it, fail, it will cost so much to repair the user will opt for a new machine. Seeing that the machine will last the maximum of ten years (my guess is seven years under normal use), they will likely be naive enough to buy another Janome, even though this company they put all this faith into just effed them over.
I wouldn't mind this so much if the machine were reasonably priced. It's not. It's the most expensive of all of this level of mechanical machines. Only their factory mate, Elna, Pfaff and of course, Babylock, Husqvarna Viking and Bernina are more expensive, but with them comes a cache of glitz and glamour the Janome lineup in this class absolutely lacks. In fact, while outfitting my HD3000, thinking (foolishly) I had a wonderful machine that would last years and years with proper maintenance and care with Janome name brand accessories (over six hundred dollars in total, just a hair less spent than on my actual machine before tax), I bristled but opened my wallet, knowing I was paying three times as much for the accessories as I was the machine when compared to the junk Singer and Brother HD series. I did so thinking I had bought quality.
Guess what...a sucker is born every minute. You're reading the reply of one sad, angry sucker.
Part 2
Who wants to bet this post is removed. Janome has sworn their dealers to secrecy some how. I live in Canada, and I could not get one Janome dealer to answer this simple question...how does a motor with half the power work as well and as strong as a motor with twice the amperage (amps and watts are EVERYTHING when it comes to torque). Every single dealer in Canada, coast to coast ghosted me. The most telling was Toews Sewing Centre, the dealer I bought my machine from directly (not through Amazon). They were cordial and wonderful and very chatty when selling me this P.O.S, but went stealth silent the second I asked this same question you did. And I asked them multiple times. Janome Canada, same thing. Janome Japan, same thing.
When I say every dealer in Canada, I mean every last dealer. Not one of them had the courtesy to email me back. I finally did get a response from a general sewing center in Alberta. While he had some Janome parts and accessories to sell, he was not an actual dealer. He was kind enough to ask Janome to sell him (for me) a one amp motor. They refused, stating they no longer manufactured them for the North American market. He did get the updated HD (yeah, right!) 3000 service and parts manual. I was able to compare old to new, and realized I had been duped at that point.
Then, I tore the motor open and discovered the truth. Then, I tore into the guts of the machine. That plastic that becomes brittle in time? It's also now used on the motor cog that the belts runs off of, the timing belt gear, and a couple of parts I have not yet inspected but strongly suspect are also bait and switched. The cam stack, that's now that awful nylon, and has a strong metal part grinding against it whenever the machine stitch selector is engaged, and running when the machine is engaged. That is yet another part that is doomed to failure.
My solution is to take the parts I have in my storage, which come off of an old eighties vintage Kenmore 22, and swap them out for the junk I was unfortunate enough to have bought when I paid Toews for this Light Edition sewing machine. Now, don't get me wrong, this machine makes a beautiful stitch. It's even, ,it's uniform, and it's tame. But it has no torque. Why do I say that? I'll tell ya. I grew suspicious of my purchase when I was making a denim pack sack for my sister's Christmas present. I had 8 layers of thin stretch denim (recycled) that I was using to make straps with. I was trying to attach them to the rear of the pack sack. All of those layers accounted for equalled 8. Well, that needle sunk down into that pile and did not come back up without my cranking the wheel. In fact, I had to hand crank that wheel to complete that part of the job. I then took this bag over to that Kenmore 22. It had a 0.7 amp motor. While I had a difficult time getting that second strap under the presser foot, it sewed through that as if it were tissue paper.
That started my odyssey into finding out WHY this machine was being so uncooperative. Fast forward to two months ago. I decided to rip open the Janome motor (and it will never find its way back into ANY machine ever again. It's being used as a motor for a Halloween prop next year, it does not deserve to be revered, so it shall be reviled, and used until it fails from rust or some such thing. I took that Kenmore 22 motor, refurbished it, gave it the Janome motor brushes (the only part of that motor worth salvaging), and planted it into the Light Edition. That machine woke the EFFF UP! It sewed like a champion. I took some left over scraps from that pack sack project and made the equivalent of eight layers. It SAWED through them like the Kenmore did when that motor lived inside of it. Imagine that. Two extra amps, and the motor has that much more torque? And it's still three amps shy of what the original motor promised and delivered to those customers lucky enough to have bought an ACTUAL HD3000/5000 machine. Can we all say RIPPED OFF?
So, seeing at the owners of this establishment were rude enough to ghost your question, I'll answer it now. That video was made about six months ago. It's a safe bet this machine was made after 2018. If that is the case, the model number will be 753LE, and I can tell you with authority that it certainly will sew through some thicker material. In fact, any machine will, provided it isn't one of those tiny machines. Sewing machines, with the right needle and thread, tension and presser foot pressure can penetrate denim and sew with little to no problem. But expecting the same performance you'd get from a Sailrite true heavy duty sewing machine, or an industrial is pure folly
I've sewn upholstery materials, complete with piping on this machine without any problem. Most of that pack sack project sewed through a few layers of denim with no trouble at all. IF I had the actual motor and inner workings of the ACTUAL HD3000, I am betting that eight layer stack of thin stretch denim would have been no problem at all for that project. The fact that Janome found a way to steal, and I do not use that word lightly, from their customers by bait and switching machines (what would you call the downgrade they claim as an upgrade, and to LEGALLY prevent class-action lawsuit issues by completely changing the model number while selling you a bill of goods that was no good at all) while charging them equal or higher prices for a much lesser machine while engineering a motor never designed to spin at that rate to emulate the same performance of the older machine that was much higher quality in build and performance than this fraudulent pile of designed to fail plastics and electrical BS is to me is not only a slap in the face, it's a declaration that Janome considers its customer base so brainless that it thought it would always get away with selling you a low end machine at high end prices (This it the world's longest run-on sentence..sorry not sorry).
If you think about it, they've been doing this kind of con for a long time now. What company charges you forty plus American dollars to learn how to use your presser feet, feet that cost you three times the market value of their competitors (for the same quality product no less) via a Presser Foot Workbook, and to learn how to use the specialty feet, another nearly forty bucks for the "Addendum" series.
These workbooks only give you basic information whereas a company like Singer has a wealth of FREE information available on ALL their accessories directly through their websites.
Janome Canada give almost no representation or guidance with anything considered "low end" (read, low class) machines through their website. They almost exclusively, however, offer rich, in-depth video experiences for the high end customers. Anyone ever watch "Titanic"? Ever observe how Jack was treated as opposed to Rose?
Now, Singer sells mostly garbage. Yet, for their customers, they have equal time with their video sessions, and all machines are regarded as equal with these demonstrations. While I think their machines are built like toys, and like Samsung washing machines, built to fail for the most part, at least they treat all of their customers equally. Janome, they only care about the people shelling out thousands on completely computerized machines that do all of the work for you, or the one mechanical machine, the HD9, well over two grand. THESE customers get respect, and a place at the table. Low class steerage customers like myself, well, we're obviously regarded as imbeciles, morons, short bus customers, what have you.
This con job is proof-positive of their complete and utter distaste for the class of patrons that actually make it possible for these "high end" clients to even have these machines. In short; we are their bread and butter customers, the customers that they gain the most profit from, yet get the worst treatment from as well. I mean, how many companies are stone, cold silent when a customer inquiry comes in, and when push comes to shove, are told, robotically, "call your dealer", as if they bear no culpability or responsibility for the product they manufacture and sell.
I'll give Janome Junkies their props. They did make a couple of 753LE videos, so they're not snotty and above it all the way Janome Canada is. I don't care for the fact that they're calling this machine the HD3000 though. It isn't, despite the appearance and the paint job. That model, along with the HD5000 ceased to exist in 2018.
What this machine was...a bear, a Sherman tank, a monolith of mechanical home sewing machine goodness. What it is; a sheep in wolf's clothing.
I hope this answers your question, Derrick. It was a good one, and they should have been classy enough to make a video for you to demonstrate how this new P.O.S (sorry, it is, and I am not sorry for saying so, just sorry for allowing myself to be blinded by the Light (Edition)) performed sewing through heavier materials.
I hope that a LOT of people take the time to read this, and AVOID buying any HD machines as a result from Janome. They are neither Heavy Duty or worth the money, despite the good stitch quality and brilliant but dishonest advertising stating otherwise.
I also am curious about this. It wouldn't concern me except Janome is completely refusing to answer questions about it.
I cannot answer for this person, but if their machine is built before 2018, it's an HD3000. If it's built after 2018, it is actually a 753LE. Both it and the HD5000 ceased to exist as a model. And...how Janome achieves 860 stitches per minute with a motor that was once a 0.87 amp motor that became a 0.5 amp motor? I tore my Janome apart and learned a few disturbing truths. One. The motor, the cheapest thing Janome had in it's inventory for years once had an aluminum cast flywheel inside the motor housing. It worked well, but that anemic motor (I do not use that word lightly) was good for basic sewing, and little else. Janome took that flywheel, and replaced it with a wafer thin (the THINNEST I've seen in a sewing machine motor to date folks), made of plastic that breaks down over time with heat or UV, and placed it alongside a Christmas light LED bulb which is what lights up the needle plate. A bulb that cannot be replaced without a soldering iron if it fails. They did this so that almost every watt of power could run this new "heater" they installed. That motor runs at nearly twice the speed it was designed to run at, and it heats up. Anyone sewing quickly or heavy materials will be in for a shock when this machine fails at some point. Other changes. All of the hard, solid, reliable for decades plastic parts in very important high stress areas of the machine have been replaced with thin (you can see light through it, it's that thin) soft nylon. The communicator elbow that makes the cam stack work with the lower drive shaft, the main hand wheel, the adjuster pin for the feed dogs (which slam up and down when raised and lowered), and a few other parts like the actual cam stack are all built to die nylon. The ugliest thing I found is the bobbin winder mechanism. On this Janome, they made an auto clutch. Wonderful, right? No more pulling out the knob in the middle. WRONG. That thin, pathetically thin, hidden by that hard plastic "hub cap" so you don't realize you've been rooked by Janome, and trust me, you have, well it's been replaced. It used to have that same durable plastic, held into the top of the frame with a hardened steel pin. Now, it's made of heavy cast aluminum. Guess what that aluminum frame does? To engage the bobbin winder, it SMACKS HARD into that pathetically thin and very soft nylon hand wheel in the rear. How long before that nylon cracks and fails. Janome did a lot of this to ensure this machine crashes and burns within a decade. The light motor, it will sew, but what people don't know is that with this motor spinning and getting super hot while doing it, it is also putting incredible strain on the nylon parts that once were up to the task. No longer. Janome designed themselves a Planned Obsolescence pair of no longer heavy duty (they never were really heavy duty, just much tougher than they are now) machines that will fail within a decade at best. These machines sew a great stitch still, and if you treat them right, and don't go throwing heavy loads under the presser foot, you should get ten years out of them. Maybe more if you're lucky. But that's assuming you do all your maintenance when you should, never subject this machine to upholstery jobs with heavy materials involved, etc. It will sew through it (laboured), but it will only bring the demise of these parts all that much quicker. My Janome is currently getting a "model" change. I am waiting for a one amp motor to be delivered, and I am replacing most of the crud parts with older Kenmore (these machines have not changed in design under the hood basically since at least 1985 components to ensure the machine will still operate properly. I do not suggest anyone try what I am doing. I know how to fix and balance these machines, that's the only reason I'm attempting it. It won't cost me much, otherwise, I would have sold the machine. Today, I bought a 1975 all steel Kenmore with a 1.0 amp motor, dual pulley configuration to do ACTUAL heavy duty work. I will miss the Janome's seven feed dog setup, the top drop in bobbin and the one step buttonholer, but then again, the buttonholer I won't, cos I will use the Janome for that. But for making a suede and leather coat I have been wanting to start, I would not trust that Janome in it's current configuration to do that work. And because I cannot change the camstack (that part is not even something you could buy if you wanted, Janome never offered that mechanism up as a replacement part), unless I found an older machine with the same stitch patterns and mechanisms to swap it out with (and I will keep on looking), so that machine is now just a general purpose sewing machine. I mean, it still makes a beautiful stitch, is well balanced, and it is a joy to sew on for the lighter stuff. But folks, don't drive this machine hard or sew heavy loads with it. It isn't built to take that now, and you will end up with a paperweight sooner, rather than later if you do. Any sewing machine mechanic would tell you the same thing. I have seen a few people on TH-cam going on about this machine being up to the task. Sure, you can sew a load on it, but the consequences down the line should be self evident when you look a the bait and switch Janome pulled on their customers (yours truly included).
@@justarandom404 And they won't. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Someone actually managed to get hold of Janome America and the rep said something to the effect of "the new motor makes the same number of stitches while providing near the same power as the older motor". I have explained in great detail how that happens via my tearing my HD3000 (actually the 753LE now) apart and forensically examining the parts, and having a couple of engineers look at the electrics, the plastics and the nylon. The machine is a bait and switch, the model number is likely put in place to stave off class action lawsuits for misrepresenting this model, etc. Yet, Janome is still paying bloggers and influencers (I'd be VERY surprised if this particular influencer who has not answered one single hard question about this new model impersonating an old model wasn't some how compensated directly, or indirectly from Janome for this "sales pitch". Of course, that's only a theory, of which I cannot ever provide proof. Only the Original Poster of this video can answer for themselves, but I would not hold my breath waiting for that to happen.) If you want to get an answer, go directly to a Janome dealer, and start asking. That's the only place you'll get your answers from. But seeing as they are selling machines, they might not give you factual answers, rather, they'll parrot the double speak Janome has. If you want to see this motor's insides, I have posted photos of it on a forum blog I did at Pattern Review, along with detailed information on my findings.
Hi, great to see your Janome HD3000 here. I was wondering your sewing machine can bring up the lever until that high but mine no option for that high so I couldn't sew the thick kind of fabric like yours. Any clue? Thanks so much for your response!
You should be able to hyper extend by pulling up to the next level.
@@janomejunkies2044 You can answer BibiysDay's question without hesitation, but WILL NOT answer derrickboyd8632's equally important question about this new and "improved" motor? Well, seeing as you're too above it all to reply to a tough question, I decided to answer it instead. And I answer it from a place of learned authority via forensically dissecting the 753LE, which is now what the model number of this machine is.
The HD5000 is identical to this machine in almost every way, and it too got this "upgrade", along with some of the high stress parts inside as well. The HD3000/5000 are great machines. They ceased to exist in 2018. Customers have been purchasing what I call "A sheep in wolf's clothing" since then. It's great that your demonstration shows it sewing through something thick. That's due to the higher presser foot clearance, and a good sewing needle. Any 0.5 amp machine can perform that task.
The motor DOES do 860 stitches per minute. Wanna know how kids? They removed a good needle plate light and replaced it with an LED 5mm unchangeable Christmas bulb harness assembly. They did this so they could funnel every last mA into that motor. It spins really fast. That's because it lost some weight via an aluminum cast flywheel. It now sports a WAFER THIN plastic flywheel. That plastic is made out of a material that breaks down when exposed to heat over time, as well as U.V light sources. Since it won't be seeing sunlight, it's the motor, spinning at twice it's designed speed (which will...I dunno, make it HEAT UP) that has it "emulating" the same performance vectors as the actual HD3000/5000 series.
What Janome did, my fine feathered friends is known as a "bait and switch". They took a great machine and made a crud machine look like it was still a great machine. Sure, it sews the same great stitch, and it's still as fast as ever. But it's gutless now. How can I say such a thing? I put a 0.7 amp Kenmore motor into my machine, and it was night and day by comparison. That gave the machine the one thing it lacked...bones! And it's still three amps less than the actual HD series machines.
If ANYONE that has a pre-2018 machine worked on this vs their machine, there would be a marked difference in torque. They would be wholly unimpressed with the needle plate light (no review fails to mention everyone's disdain for that joke of a lamp), and they would be shocked at what I found underneath the hood...hard plastic replaced with very thin nylon parts in key stress components inside this machine. What Janome has done by changing the model number is to prevent legal challenges via class action lawsuits for this mere shadow of the machine they once produced once people found out. Trust me, people are finally waking up.
It may not seem like it, because my sentences run on forever, but I am a writer. And I am an angry Janome customer that wanted answers and got nothing but static. So I resent the fact that you gave Derrick the same obnoxiously snobbish treatment Janome Canada, Toews Sewing (the dealer that sold me a bill of goods that were no good at all), Janome Japan, and EVERY dealer, coast to coast in Canada gave me for asking a similar question. How can a motor of half the amperage be as strong and powerful as a motor of twice the amperage.
Now I know HOW Janome made this motor run so quickly, I also know how long it will last, considering it is running far beyond it's design limits, and heating up twice as much while running twice as fast as it was also designed for...with a component living in it that breaks down over time when exposed to heat...five, maybe seven, ten if you're lucky, years. It will all depend on how often the machine gets used.
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Add to that the main wheel interacting with a heavier bobbin winder framework, now that it's made out of very soft, very thin (I can actually see light through all of the nylon parts that used to be hard, sturdy plastic) failing due to fatigue from that thing literally slamming into it every time it's engaged (and Janome hiding the fact that it's an inferior designed to fail at a certain number of cycles part by covering it up with a plastic cap that looks like the stuff they've been making all along, hard plastic), and you have a bait and switch.
The elbow that connects the cam stack array/control panel to the lower drive shaft...also made of designed to fail nylon where a high stress component will sooner or later develop a stress crack, then total machine failure when it snaps....that part or the main wheel, or the cam stack itself, which has metal grinding against it every time the stitch selector is engaged, and the machine in operation...or that very poor quality circuit board that is essentially nothing but a cheap Chinese transformer that operates that pathetic light...I could go on.
I am certain you will delete what I've written here. I mean, you didn't personally do this to the machine, and you're doing your due diligence by advertising it, as that is how you make your money...selling machines. I get that, and I don't hold that against you. I mean, everyone's got to eat. But to ignore a potential customer's request the way my dealer ignored my questioning the almost three times the price of their competitor's machines when I'm getting the same garbage they are selling, that irked me. And, to be blunt, it's offensive. You should be up front with people about the machines you are selling. This one, and the HD5000 are NO LONGER these models. The paint says they are, the model tag disagrees. In short, this machine is a lie, as is the HD5000.
Janome is hiding the truth of what they did, which is to sell people on the idea that these machines are still the stuff of legend, when in fact they're now gutless compared to what they were, and designed to break down, or just self-destruct after a certain number of operational cycles. That is bad for business, yes, and the truth hurts. That is a given.
Considering how expensive these machines are, it's criminal in my view to be representing a product to be something it most certainly no longer is. Tough, resilient and reliable. With all of what I just wrote, it's a certainty that this machine will be the stuff of legend for all of the wrong reasons, and you should have the fortitude to answer a guy's question by either demonstrating what he asked you to, or at least having the stones to reply to him. What you did sucks! And I have a good idea how that has to feel.
Nice video, but that machine, despite what was demonstrated, it no longer is worthy of the HD designation...and Janome clearly agrees.
The model tag is proof of that!
Yes. Any 1970's All Steel Kenmore has the same ability to stack heavy fabrics under the presser foot, both on the super high and low shank models. And these machines are built to take them without destroying thin, soft nylon parts in the process. They won't break immediately, but any heavy load on the Janome shortens it's lifespan. I've written why on one of the people I commented on here. I suggest reading it before shelling out a dime on the HD3000 and 5000 (near identical models). Those old Kenmores are cheap and cheerful, have a wonderful double pulley system that gives it increased torque, high presser foot clearance, durable steel and aluminum cast components, VERY easy to clean and maintain. The down side to them are that most models have an oscillating bobbin setup (much tougher, all metal, but a pain and I hate them with a passion) at least 0.6 amps up to 1.3 amps with the motors on them (and these motors last for many decades with proper care), are simple to use, have a lot of different types of options that you can buy to add onto most of them, come in free arm as well as flatbed models, and honestly are a much better bargain than planned obsolescence brought to you by your local Janome dealer. I just bought a mid level 1975 Kenmore for $75 bucks this afternoon, and am in the process of cleaning and lubing it up. It's so much more solid in build than my HD3000, and before I tore it apart, I threw the same load I put under my Janome when I discovered it wasn't the machine I thought I bought...8 thinner stretch denim layers (not to be mistaken with heavy denim, this is the stuff skinny jeans are made out of). I used the same denim needle, the same Gutermann nylon thread, the same settings, and unlike my Janome, which the needle sunk down into that stack and would not come back up, this machine ran through this like it wasn't even there. So, instead of buying a new pretty and shiny sewing machine, I suggest looking to the past, when they built quality into them, and finding a cheap and cheerful refurbished Kenmore/Bernina from the fifties into the mid seventies, or anything pre 1956 Singer (or any brand, actually), or possibly, if you have the real estate, an industrial. Machines being sold now are designed to die after x amount of cycles, and putting heavy loads under the presser feet of these things will result in them breaking down sooner than the company planned. It's also a side note, but Janome has a five year electric warranty on the HD3000 I bought. I let an electrical engineer look at the electrics, including this new (and it's a horrible Frankenstein special) motor, and he estimated that these parts, the PCB board that makes the Christmas light LED bulb work so that the motor can hog all the power to spin like it does and impersonate the 0.87 amp motor this machine used to have, and stated it would likely start failing at the five year mark. Nice eh? The cheap nylon parts they swapped in when they took out the strong, heavy duty plastics they once used....a decade, if you're lucky. Much sooner if you sew heavy fabrics or gun your sewing machine too much. These parts will crack, and they will fail. And they are in places that cost a lot of money to extract and repair on a bench. Pretty much all sewing machine manufacturers now are doing this. So, maybe have a look at something better built? Just a thought.
Does it have a speed button?
Most machines have all those features. Why dosnt it have needle down and thread cutter at that price
BTW, the H9....it has a very large white nylon gear rubbing up against a metal gear in the main drive shaft down below....another built to fail part! For a machine that advertises itself as a semi industrial style machine, that is unacceptable. Go buy a Sailrite or an old all metal machine. Your welcome!
Muchísimas gracias por esta detallada información, soy de México y trato de informarme sobre la mejor opción pues lo veo como inversión y no quiero gastar el valioso tiempo y esfuerzo de vida que usé para ganarme ese dinero. Realizo bolsos, pero ahora sé que una industrial será mi elección, mi sueño es traer una sailrite, espero pronto 🤩