One day when sewing on my Pfaff 1229, all of a sudden it stops, , , ,dead! OK put it away and used one of my other machines, saved up for months to take it in to the shop to get it fixed, after all it was my old work horse. Finally have the money saved drove into town to the Pfaff shop, told them it probally needed a new fuse or some thing, he says lets see, takes it out pluged it in and away it went purring away like nothing was ever wrong! I asked "what did you do to it?" he said "I pluged it in " LOL color me super red, plug had worked loose, so make sure every thing is pluged in too. but I saved so much on repairs that I got me another machine, LOL