Originally Posted by
Prism99
I'm wondering how you cleaned out the bobbin area. Did you remove the needle plate to remove lint? I have a Bernina 1230 and stopped having it professionally cleaned years ago. I clean it thoroughly myself, including vacuuming when necessary. (I tape a straw to my vacuum's crevice tool so I can poke it around inside the machine.) With this type of fairly frequent cleaning, I can't imagine enough lint accumulating in my machine to require professional servicing.
I do take off the needle plate and take out the shuttle and all. I thought I would try your vacuum method with the straw. I think the lint build-up was probably in the area to the right of the bobbin area. I cannot figure out how to get into my machine, or I would do so. On the less automated ones, I always cleaned, greased gears, oiled, etc. myself. The timing was also off on my machine and I was breaking needles fairly often, which the repairman thought was probably because of the timing.