Singer 8280 Erratic Thread Takeup Lever Movement
This Singer 8280 had been sitting in its box in storage for over 5 years now and had only recently been taken out to be used for the first time. Having sat unused for so long, it needed to be opened up, and a lot of TLC and WD-40 to get stuck parts moving again.
During a brief test run of the machine, it started to make a loud rattling noise inside its head above where the needle is, and before long, it got stuck. I opened up the cover over the machine's head and saw that it was the mechanism of the thread take-up lever getting stuck in places it shouldn't be reaching and noticed while the machine ran that it had a wild and erratic movement (as shown in the video) unlike any that I've seen in videos online.
Is there any way to fix this?
u/Mark-Jin — 6 days ago