Yes you can save your favorite machine and learn how to do it yourself and save a lot of money.
Hi , I usually read when the newletter comes in and havent' posted before but this is a subject that I had to deal with.
My baby was a Viking from the 1980's I carried it around for over 10 years since I knew it would be expensive to fix. Hoping I would one day be able to afford it.
I bought a cheap new Brother from Walmart to use and of course it was junk. So I went to a thrift store and bought an old machine and used that.
Through another group I found a group that will walk you through repairing your old sewing machines. Its not as hard as you might think most times. I ended up repairing my Viking , that was difficult, But it saved me 350.00 that a repair man wanted. Mostly he just wanted me to turn it in and get a new machine. So glad I didn't listen to him.
I now have about 10 different machine. I love the old Singer slant machines. But I did buy a new Brother QC1000 which so far I really enjoy. But I would never use it to sew through upholstery material.
I don't know the rules about providing a link to the repair group , I was on another group that didn't allow it. But if anyone want's it let me know
Good luck