Welcome, Eshetterly93. Your machine probably needs to be serviced which can be done, if so inclined, by yourself. It seems like this is a machine that has a lot of oil points. Also the motor may need some attention.
From my understanding, the 101 had several different knee controllers. I think there was a left and a right knee controller in cabinets. Then there was the portable that took a knee bar and there were two of those, one of which was for the portable that could be put into a cabinet. There are several vintage sewing machine enthusiasts that praise the 101. There is someone that fashioned a knee bar to attach to a 101 controller as seen near the bottom at
http://steelsewing.blogspot.com/search?q=101 I did a search for "Singer 101 convertible"
(with the quotes) and found a thread that shows some of the knee controllers.
We like pictures. In order to post pictures on Quilting Board, you will probably need to reduce or compress the picture to a
file size that is smaller than 2MB. How to post images can be found at
https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...020-01-17-.pdf
Don't forget to scroll over to the far right to find and click on the "
Upload" button.
I have found that only the big red "Reply" button or "Quote" work to give me the paper clip icon to work for adding pictures.
https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...p-location.jpg
Some additional info regarding reducing images at post #4 and images for the scroll and upload button can be found at #5 of
quilt block ID?
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