My machine has a mind of it's own
#11
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: North Texas
Posts: 8,710
Happens to me but only when I have shoes on and press too hard...therefore , I usually sew barefooted.
I am looking for a Janome Magbolia 4500 just because I tried one at retreat and love that it can be adjusted to go slow no matter how hard the foot presses......With my vision, this will be helpful....Too fast for my eye to keep up sometimes....
At least no one discovered ghostly occurences in those feet. LOL.
I am looking for a Janome Magbolia 4500 just because I tried one at retreat and love that it can be adjusted to go slow no matter how hard the foot presses......With my vision, this will be helpful....Too fast for my eye to keep up sometimes....
At least no one discovered ghostly occurences in those feet. LOL.
#13
I know. It is possessed. I got up to iron and the machine was running by itself. Then I pressed the footpedal and nothing happened and when I took my foot off it too off goibng a mile a minute.
No really your foot pedal is probably bad. That is exactly what happened to mine last month.
No really your foot pedal is probably bad. That is exactly what happened to mine last month.
#14
My Janome has done that. I took it into the dealer and bought a new foot. That didn't change a thing. It did it again. I blame it on the computer. It does it off and on. I just turn off the machine I get a FC error. It hasn't done it lately. I just know when it is having a fit, that eventually it will go back to being nice. Not going to buy another foot and hate to be without my machine, so I just deal.
I now only use the foot pedal to wind the bobbin then I remove it and only use the stop/start button for all my sewing.
#15
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Morgantown PA
Posts: 223
Yes, my machine used to do this. It didn't matter if I used the foot pedal or the start/stop button. It would just go and go....at a slow speed, but the only way to turn it off was to turn the machine off! It was still under warranty, so the repairman replaced the mother board. I haven't had any problems since!
#16
Thanks for all your suggestions....I did take the pedal apart and cleaned it all out as much as I could see....so it's been behaving since. I hope it continues to work the right way.....spending $62.00 on a foot control is not in my budget right now.....Thanks again
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