Has your machine's foot pedal ever worn out?
My sewing machine is a Kenmore from the mid 1980s. After many years of excellent service the original foot pedal wore out (I had rigged it to be a knee-operated pedal, and that may have hastened its demise). It didn't just quit, but the machine would run more and more slowly until it would probably have been faster to hand sew! I got a replacement pedal and the same thing happened within a couple of years. Replacement Number Two is now almost unuseable after a little over a year. Granted, I have been doing a lot of sewing....but this still seems ridiculous! The two replacements have been generic pedals, purchased through my sewing machine repair technician, and they worked beautifully at first.
Has this happened to anyone else? Any suggestions on what I can do so I am not buying replacements every year or so?
Alison