Here's a long shot. I guess it would be the first ever post about sewing machines and it might even get thrown out.
But I got nothing to lose, can't find the answer anywhere - and it's DIY people who try to fix their own sewing machines as well as everything else, right?
So on my Elna 3003 the feed dogs are stuck in the down position.
When I look inside under the dogs I find a 'feed dog shaft' with a cam on it and I see the cam is stuck at the right side of the shaft, near the spring.
It needs to be on the left to raise the dogs. I can't get it over there.
I do see there is a pin through the shaft and it protrudes and perhaps is stopping the thing.
But I also see the thing seems to have a recess to fit the pin and I'm guessing that recess goes right through the cam and allows the cam to travel completely over the pin left and right. But just controlling the position it is in when it does it. Else why have a pin there at all?
And the cam does not pass right over that pin.
Is all I know. I put a pic or two on imgur. not that it matters really. It's so simple anyone with the knowledge or a janome or Elna of their own to look at they'd be in no doubt as to what I mean.
feed dog shaft and cam
and another
But I got nothing to lose, can't find the answer anywhere - and it's DIY people who try to fix their own sewing machines as well as everything else, right?
So on my Elna 3003 the feed dogs are stuck in the down position.
When I look inside under the dogs I find a 'feed dog shaft' with a cam on it and I see the cam is stuck at the right side of the shaft, near the spring.
It needs to be on the left to raise the dogs. I can't get it over there.
I do see there is a pin through the shaft and it protrudes and perhaps is stopping the thing.
But I also see the thing seems to have a recess to fit the pin and I'm guessing that recess goes right through the cam and allows the cam to travel completely over the pin left and right. But just controlling the position it is in when it does it. Else why have a pin there at all?
And the cam does not pass right over that pin.
Is all I know. I put a pic or two on imgur. not that it matters really. It's so simple anyone with the knowledge or a janome or Elna of their own to look at they'd be in no doubt as to what I mean.
feed dog shaft and cam
and another