Hey Billy and All,
Thanks to your repeated advice over the last months I did a fair job receiving a featherweight recently. Checked all visible wiring for insulation condition, dropped the pan and checked the motor connections and wiring, checked the motor brushes and cleaned those, disassembled the button foot controller -- cleaning the contacts and checked the internal wiring.
After all that, I plugged it in and would you believe it, the light actually turned on!
Runs like a top and I am not worried about using it.
Thank you for your invaluable guidance.
Now, about that little ticking noise when the needle passes the hook and bobbin case . . . using the service manuals, I successfully set the timing on my 127, 66, and 301A. I checked the timing on the 221J and as far as I could tell it was good.
I am using a 15x1 sharp needle and I am getting a good lockstitch, have even tension after disassembling the tension system and cleaning it.
But I have a ticking sound because something is tapping something during the stitch. I am not sewing with it until the sound is adjusted out.
Any advice?
Aardie.