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Originally Posted by cromag
Can the shop look for a secondhand machine of the same model? Either to replace your machine or to use for parts?
I had to get repair parts for an old Hoover vacuum. The guy at the repair shop told me they'd stopped making parts, but he pulled out a cardboard box of parts that had been salvaged from old machines and found exactly what I needed.
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I did look on eBay and Etsy for grins and giggles. I couldn't find any exact matches. The motor itself has a problem, which just isn't fixable, or not worth the time/trouble to try. The guy said he worked on it for 4 hours, and just couldn't fix it. It sews, but poorly. I'm hoping maybe he will offer me a little something towards a new machine. He isn't charging me anything.
The machine must have been one of the last non-computerized Quantums that Singer made. That combined with the fact that Singer at some point filed bankruptcy, and factories that made parts closed down.
This repair place is THE best sewing machine shop in northeast Ohio. He knows what he's talking about...I bought the machine there 30+ years ago, he said it was the last Singer model they sold. He doesn't sell them at all now. I don't think he even likes to take the newer Singers in for repair.