Originally Posted by
Beautiful_Sound
$5 dollars and sinking $19 into new gears I don't feel that bad.
You're not the only one: I think quite a few of us have suffered from the nylon gear. You're right, $24 is pretty good and since they usually last 40 or 50 years, it's money well spent. The thing I can't get over with my daughter's machine (Singer 498K) is that the buttonhole feature won't work because the plastic mechanism is worn and can't be fixed
(at position 3 it
should do a reverse ZZ)