I agree with prism99 this happened with my singer along time ago my timing was knocked out needle bent and the teck said my main shaft was bent (that does not normaly happen) so he fixed everything except the shaft for 69.00 (that was a special singer was having anything for $69. so it worked alright. Then a few years later Singer was running another special for $69.00 i took it in for service and the teck went all the way through the machine and rebuilt it and replaced the bent shaft. Hope your hubby can fix it for you
I do agree if you can afford one you should go to walmart if you have one and get a little machine for back up.
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