Originally Posted by miriam
Originally Posted by HanNatNana
Originally Posted by miriam
Originally Posted by miriam
Well, my sister just left town. While she was here we found a Bernina 530-2 in a mostly all there cabinet. I have never seen a Bernina in my life. It appears in good cosmetic shape and it turns. It has a whole bunch of weird feet. The stitch dial doesn't do much and the built in knee control doesn't move very far. I have yet to clean it up. I've had to catch up on regular work and hope to get something done on the machine over the week end. There is a manual - pretty small print... I'm thinking enlarge on the copy machine... The power does not go on when it is plugged in - no power at all. Is there some way to clean the contacts? Any info would help.
It is called a Record - the stitch selector doesn't move, the zig zag knob doesn't move and there is no power - I wonder if it could be hard wired. I oiled it up so I may try a little heat in a couple days and see if anything moves. I searched on line for info but I'm thinking someone who actually has one might know more than I'm finding. It does zig zag and straight but the part with all the nice stitches doesn't budge.
Miriam, have you joined the Bernina Yahoo group? BerninaThirtySomethings
Also this Pattern Review thread has a link to download the manual, that might help too?
Is there anyone know about BERNINA RECORD 530-1?
Sorry you'll have to search for both as the links continually gave error messages when trying to send them.
If you still have questions ask again and I'll try and dig back through my archive (some people call theirs a brain!!) as I used to own a 730 Record many years ago.
Good luck with your search.
Bronwyn ;-)
Thanks - I did join the yahoo group but I didn't really find much out there. It appears to be a very nice machine if I can make it work. It is not very used. It is called Bernina Record 530-2 it has a free arm - things just pop off to clean and it wasn't very dirty and it is very clean now... I wonder if heat would hurt it any? There seems to be a plastic gear in there.
My Bernina 730 was very accessible, the top opens and the free arm cover pops off which makes it easy to clean and check everything. Not sure if you need any parts but there is a parts machine on ebay.com and another complete machine as well, both are in Canada with shipping to the US.
Yes, there are several nylon gears as you've discovered so I don't think they would like too much heat, then again nothing ever went wrong with my Bernina so I didn't need to do anything other than regular maintenance...should have kept that machine as it was a fairly high speed machine. When you want to do other than a straight stitch, you need to slide the 1-15 (?) switch as well as select the stitch you want. Automatic buttonholes need the zigzag lever pulled down, then it moves between those two tiny brass stops. The knee lever was to raise the presser foot when doing freehand embroidery.
One of the ebay machines has lots of photos, not sure if they will help? At least they might be a good reference guide.
Hope some of this helps?
Bronwyn ;-)