Thanks for all the suggestions and memories! I have decided to have it serviced and found a shop nearby that has a guy who can fix up this model. They said they could probably find some feet too. I did find a few parts I must have (bobbins and the bobbin case) online, as well as the manual cheap from a UK site which I downloaded. I can live without the dial wheel since I don't need all the fancy stitches. It is a little rougher than I thought - the dials are sort of gunky and one seems to be frozen. But I believe the repairman can get it up and running. I am also going to set up my MIL's Bernina 1530 along with my new machine. So I will have backups and once I learn how each machine really works, I will probably switch back and forth depending on the job. Thanks so much for all your info! I have learned so much in just a couple of days!