Should I overhaul my Singer 401A or purchase a Janome 2012?
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Location: Aurora, CO
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The 401A is a wonderful machine. What makes you think it needs repaired? If it hasn't been used for awhile it needs to be oiled good. The manual has good instructions for oiling. My 401A is 53 years young and still humming along. You have jewel there.
#13
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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The needle bar is sloppy, skipping stitches and the thread is looping under the fabric.
#14
The needle bar is supposed to have sideways 'give' due to the designs offered by the cams and knob settings but an overly 'sloppy' needlebar might require taking a closet look inside to make sure a screw or two hasn't backed off a bit.
Too bad you're so far away from me otherwise I'd take a look at it.
Shari
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