oregongirl

Hi all, I've got a "new to me" Singer 503 that I'm passing along to a 5th grade girl that I work with at school. She's wanting to make Barbie clothes!

Brought it out tonight to make sure it was ready to give her tomorrow. The straight stitch is fine, but I tried changing the cams to make sure the decorative stitches were working, and I only got straight stitches. It won't zig-zag and it won't make any of the decorative stitches with the cams.

The lever that adjusts the needle L-C-R moves, but the needle isn't moving accordingly.

Any ideas before I take it in to get serviced? I'm not dying to pay a lot to get it fixed to give it away, but will if I have to.

Thanks for any suggestions.