Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste

2879 readers

3 users here now

A place to share ideas, knowledge and creations with textiles. The focus is on reducing waste, whether that be sewing from the scraps left from other projects, using the end of rolls and remnants, or repairing and remaking finished pieces.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

BrightFadedDog@sh.itjust.works

Speed issues in old foot-pedal? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world to c/sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hey gang, I was hoping I could pick some people's brains on this. I have a singer rocketeer I'm restoring and part of that is that I replaced the foot pedal with one off an old alco. This inadvertently diagnosed the issue with the alco as being the foot pedal. When you press down, the motor hums but seizes until you get about half way, then it runs at Moc 2 until you ease back.

There any way to fix this or do I just need a new one?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have you oiled the motor?

This has happened a couple times on my old Singer (same symptoms), and if I run it for a while I sometimes even smell/see smoke. Then I remember to put a few drops at all the oil points, and everything runs better.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Actually that was my first thought, but a good deep clean and oiling just made the thing a tad lighter and slipperier lol