Originally Posted by
Barb in Louisiana
Edited to add: This manual does show your lever. I suspect that if it is swinging freely, you will have to make a repair. If you don't have any success locally, why don't you call Tin Lizzie? They would want you sewing and not sitting there with a machine that doesn't work. They might could send you the parts and instructions on how to change it.
Tin Lizzie doesn't exist anymore. There is a company called "Locksmith Lizzie" that was started a year or so ago that *might* be run by a family member of the former company, but I was told that there is no factory support for the old Tin Lizzie machines.