Originally Posted by
Mrs. SewNSew
The other question is..I have accessed the motor hoping to check the brushes and clean it up but haven't found my way in. Do you think I take these tiny copper leads off and remove the gold colored pieces? The brush cases are in there. Or should this thing pull apart if I add some muscle?
If memory serves, yes, the brushes are under where you showed. I have a vague memory of those brushes (or maybe the brushes in another Bernina) giving me fits because they were fiddley to manage without "sproinging all over the place" I never did get all the way into that Bernina's motor. I stopped about where you did (besides the brushes) I think I might have cleaned the carbon out of everyhere I could without, and cleaned up the commutator as much as possible with a pencil eraser through the slots. The motor in mine was done though.