1941 petal issues
04-18-2020, 03:16 PM
#2
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Location: Denver, CO
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Welcome, Is that the model or year of your machine?
They are called foot controller or foot pedal. There are some Youtube videos about repairing, some are better than others.
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They are called foot controller or foot pedal. There are some Youtube videos about repairing, some are better than others.
The instructions for posting pictures on Quilting Board can be found at https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...020-01-17-.pdf
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
04-18-2020, 03:55 PM
#3
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Clarksville, In
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Welcome to the Quilting Board, and I certainly hope you get your pedal issues under control. Sounds very much like it needs to be re-wired. If the machine is an old one, the wires probably need to be replaced completely.
04-19-2020, 10:02 AM
#5
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Location: Greater Peoria, IL -- just moved!
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How wonderful you got your problem fixed. I dropped the foot pedal of my vintage machine recently and really broke it! It had some sort of fancy bakelite or early plastic channel thing completely broken in half with springs now askew and an obvious electrical short.
It was a much more complicated device than I would have thought. Never thought much about foot pedals but not a simple lever, you have to have the push back component to it.
On Monday I'll try contacting the shop I go to for my vintage stuff, I understand they are open by appointment/will meet in the back parking lot with masks over our faces like we are doing something much more suspicious than fixing an old machine
It was a much more complicated device than I would have thought. Never thought much about foot pedals but not a simple lever, you have to have the push back component to it.
On Monday I'll try contacting the shop I go to for my vintage stuff, I understand they are open by appointment/will meet in the back parking lot with masks over our faces like we are doing something much more suspicious than fixing an old machine
04-20-2020, 03:04 AM
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Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
