Review on Sewing machine Janome DC 4030, white/pink by Dorota Naruszewicz ᠌

I bought a few days ago in Hong Kong at the lowest price of that day, about 14,680. The price, of course, is not small (thanks to the party and the exchange rate), but compared to more modern counterparts, about which there is an understanding that thick places can more or less be sewn, this is the initial price. The store claimed that they normally cope with the thick places of the machine only from 20 thousand. and above, they offered instead some kind of Brother, which recently cost 25 thousand, and now (oh miracle !) has fallen in price to 20 thousand. (again, thanks to the cheaper exchange rate!). They didn’t convince me - neither by design, nor by weight (about 5 kg in total, although maybe this is a prejudice - in modern ones, instead of 1 motor, they put several small ones on each active node, hence the savings on parts connecting the nodes), nor additional. motor on the needle (to enhance piercing). My personal opinion is that, after all, they used to do more thorough equipment - it’s not for nothing that this model has been on the market for 20 years and is still in demand. The overall rating is 4 due to not confident work both with thick threads (it doesn’t lay them as neatly as thin and medium ones, although I adjusted the tension and set the needles I needed), and with transitions to thick places (it sometimes skips stitches, though not always). I tried a special foot for difficult places - it also skips stitches (I didn’t understand the reasons). And yes - this foot can be bought for 100! (in this store it costs 2 thousand! - like a native Janome .).