I bought one on ebay too. The guy that sold it to me evidently knew nothing about packing it. he put the foot pedal loose in the feather wt. box, which banged around in shipping and broke the light bulb and put a few scratches on the machine. He also advertised it as running and the stitching was messed up so the small wire piece at the tension was not working. Don't know if it broke during the shake up shipping. I emailed him and asked if he would pay to have it fixed on my end. He agreed to going $25 so I said ok, and took it to my Bernina dealer and he fixed it up for $45. Since I got it on ebay for 175 including shipping, no way was I sending it back to him. So get it fixed on your end here. You will need someone that knows how to weld white metal, I broke off my clutch handle on my motorcycle when a kid and it took someone that could mig weld to fix it.