A Lesson Learned
Submitted by Rose Peterson
I had a fabric jam, and couldn’t free it, so I got out my manual and pried the plate up, and found a loose piece! No idea what it was or where it went. I also found a ton of dust! And lint that was jammed in be-tween the feed dogs so hard I had to pry it out with a needle, it was like felt! Since it is a computerized machine I knew it didn’t need oil, so I was very lax in having it serviced. Shame on me!
In the process of using the brush to get the dust out, the wee cutter thing came off in my hands. I couldn’t put it back, so I took out a screw that released the cutter holder piece and promptly dropped the minus-cule screw down one of the holes. Things were getting worse and worse. The manual had one picture and warned to be careful cleaning around the blade of the automatic thread cutter. There was no parts list, showing where things go.
For once, google let me down, I couldn’t find any schematics of my machine, I did find out what the loose part was: an upper fletcher which costs 11.95. Big help.
So, I emailed a local quilt shop and they have a curb side drop off and pick up. The cost is $125. For whatever it needs, one standard price, at this time. A lesson learned. Hope you are well and keeping happy
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