wilburness

miriam I may need your sledge hammer! been working on a singer stylist 834. it clicks and I have found why just not a way to make it stop.
you will see that the feed dogs rub against the needle plate that makes the needle plate lift and flop back causing the click click. the owner had that magnet guide stuck to the plate. when I told her the problem, now she remembers why she had that magnet there.. to hold the plate down and stop the clicking. she also had a needle hit the needle plate quite a few times.
I have pulled this apart, cleaned, oiled and still cannot stop the rubbing and click click. I thought the feed dogs needed to be adjusted, no can do.
any ideas?