Hi there,

My sewing machine has always worked a dream. I got it out today after moving home and it's not working :(

The light is on, but when I compress the pedal nothing happens. I've opened up the pedal and nothing looks burned out.

Would you guys recommend a new pedal or perhaps taking it to a sewing machine repair shop, or is there a few things I could try myself first?

Many thanks!

Nadine

Nadine, May 2010

Hello Nadine,
Check the plug to the machine and check the pins on the socket on the machine, unlikely the foot control will just pack up completely unless you can hear the carbons rattling about when you shake it if they have broken, there ios a way of checking whether it is the foot control or something else and that is by taking the foot control off, take a short length of cable with a light socket on the end, put a bulb in the socket, connect up the wires of the foot control lead to the light lead and switch the machine on and it should run slowly, if it runs then you need as new control, if it does not then you may either have a break in the wire to the machine or inside the plug on the machine.
Ken

drivewithken, June 2010