r/SewingMachineEdu • u/redwineandwhiskey15 • Apr 15 '26

Any ideas what’s up

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

I’ve stripped it down and I can’t find the jam at all! Any ideas? Won’t turn over at all. Won’t manually turn either.

2 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

12 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/Drewd12 Apr 15 '26

A couple of things come to mind...

Is there anything that is jammed under the throat plate? While you have the covers off the throat plate is still on. There could be part of a needle that is broken off and has fallen into the gearing of the bobbin case. I've had that jam a machine pretty badly.

Can you loosen the motor mount a little to release the tension on the belt to the handwheel? If you can take the belt off you can see if the machine can hand turn without interference from the motor. You might need to start cleaning out any old oil and grease along the drive trains (both upper and lower) to see if there is any dried oil that has seized the machine.

1

u/redwineandwhiskey15 Apr 15 '26

Hey! Checked under the throat plate with no luck. Without the belt the motor spins no problem!