Thanks for this post. It inspired me to take another look at the needle threader on my old Costco brother machine. It is my favorite machine even though I have 4 vintage machines. Mine is different than the one on BETTY62's machine and once I googled what it looked like I was able to see where the tiny little hook was bent. So I bent it to look like the picture and put it back on. And I was able to thread the needle with it again!!