I am so sorry to read about your problems with your machine. I am lucky to have a very good man to do the work. He not only cleans the machines, but replaced the old needle and the light bulb and checked all the wiring and the foot pedal to make sure it worked good. All this for just taking it in to be cleaned and I wasn;t charged for any thing other then clean and lube. Very good service and very reasonable. There are still some good honest service people left in our world.