I just purchased a second hand vintage sewing machine (Singer 5102). The lady said she'd used it only a couple times when she first got it in the 80s, so it's practically new. The problem is after I went through cleaning and servicing it, I couldn't get the needle to move. The hand wheel, belt, and fan bit of motor move fine, but I noticed there is brown thread stuck in a joint of the arm that attaches the needle arm to the thread take-up lever.
I'm assuming she either didn't put the thread in properly or it slipped out somehow. I've tried unscrewing the small phillips head screw at the joint of the arm to remove the remaining thread, but I had to stop because it was too tight and I was just wearing out of the screw. Any suggestions?
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Your machine may be stuck in bobbin winding mode. There are two wheels (one within the other) on your sewing machine. Turn the inner wheel towards you and the outer wheel away from you to get into sewing mode.
If there is a thread stuck in the arm area this could actually block the arm from moving correctly. You may need to take this apart and see if you can get the thread out of the way.
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