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[telophase]

Good information on what to check on your sewing machine before taking it in to the shop.

(I once got lectured by a shop owner, after I brought my machine in for service, for buying a machine from "Wal-Mart" [note: it was from Target thankyouverymuch] because they're so shoddily made. No amount of explanation that I literally use it less than once a year so it's not worth dropping $500+ on a machine from a professional place made a dent. I'm certainly not taking my machine back there for fixing again, and I'm definitely not buying from them if I do decide to upgrade!)

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[adafrog]

Oh wow. Very complicated. Good thing I don't even have a machine. lol

What a jerk. That's not the way to get people to come to your store.

[telophase]

Yeah, they're complex machinery, and given the lack of caretaking I do, I'm surprised mine always last for years before finally falling over or something. When I took this one in, it was because a belt had slipped, but it had been, like, 8 years since I'd bought it.

[adafrog]

That's not bad.

[elistaire]

Thank you for the link! I have to really clean out the lint with every bobbin-winding. I've got two machines -- a new one (electric buttons and everything) and a 1963 Singer. I'm working on a threading issue with the new one and pulled the old one out of 'retirement' and after some cleaning up, it worked perfectly. I'm going to go through this advice and see if I can't get the new one working right again.

[telophase]

Cool! I really should do more (by which I mean "any") cleaning on mine. I think the basic shoddiness of the cheap machines may work in my favor: if it works with cheap parts and lackadaisical assembly, maybe there's a greater tolerance of error in its operation!