Since moving over from the UK I have been sewing on my trusty,
> purely mechanical, Toyota sewing machine, with it running
> slowly on 110V rather than 230V. Yesterday I called in at a
> local garage/yard sale picked up of couple of useful thingies
> (not sewing related) and then spotted the Brother sewing
> machine, with the sad label "Does not work - Free". Well,
> somehow it jumped into the trunk of my car, along with the
> useful thingies and came home with me.
Congratulations!!!
It turns out to be a VX 847 of 1980s (?) vintage. Today I have
> taken it to pieces as far as my confidence will let me,
> brushed out a small amount of lint, oiled it where I would
> normally oil my Toyota (the inner mechanism is fairly
> similar), cleaned all the plastic covers, reassembled it,
> changed the needle and tried it out. So far it seems to work
> pretty well with the possibility of a minor tension issue. I
> have ordered a manual for $10 so if this works I shall be a
> happy bunny :)
If the issue is with the needle tension, I found this video, which may assist you in fixing your tension assembly issue:
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Additional information, and bobbin tension is addressed here:
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HTH,