Oh, good for you Q65! I, too had my old faithful machine freeze up on me. I finished a quilt in early April and was working on the border on another and when I turned her on this weekend, she just whirred her engine and the gears did not work. She is 54 years old and has never been in hospital! I surely hope she can be fixed as she is my go-to machine for everything. It is a Singer 401A--the last all steel one and it will sew through iron, I think. Hope the local shop can fix her.