I took my old Singer (it was not a Touch and Sew) in to see if they could fix if for a "back-up" machine for me. An earlier repair was not that pricey, but this particular part would have taken enough hours to put in that I could have bought a good used machine for less. Get an estimate. It may be that it just needs a cleaning and timing adjustment or something simple or a major overhaul. I ended up giving it to a friend whose husband likes tinker with fixing sewing machines to see if he could fix it for his daughter-in-law. (The part wasn't that expensive, it just was a major thing to replace it.)