Mrs. SewNSew

It was all coming along really well. The stuck parts freed up, light switch now replaced, straight stitch adjusted, oiled and running to get that motor some exercise and up to speed...and then the capacitor blew!

It must have been some weird karma that I was asking about it before. I had finally decided to leave them in since they look ok and worry about it later if I had a problem.

(Insert PROBLEM here)

Now I really do have to make a decision about removing or replacing them. The first shot is the before. Then I cleaned up the plate and put it back. Today when I stopped running the motor I heard a wet Phsssst sound and you can see in the second pic that one of the capacitors oozed silly putty all over.