please somebody help me ....please

Have you aksed about replacing the motor itself?

The transformer should work fine for the short term. The cycles will make the motor run a bit slower than in the US. Over the long term, if you will be staying in France I would suggest a new machine made for that countries electric.

OK, I'm going to assume you started life in the USA, because if you were anywhere else in EU before moving to France you wouldn't be having this problem.

Electricity in America is 110V (volts), 60Hz (frequency)(cycles/second). Electricity in France is 220V, 50Hz

So, there are two problems - the voltage and the frequency.

The major problem is the voltage - you need to get a step-down transformer to derive the lower voltage to run your machine safely. You will fry it if you plug it in without a transformer.

The frequency difference will cause your machine to run more slowly, and could cause problems in terms of wear, tear, vibrations etc. etc.

When you purchase the transformer, make sure it is sufficiently rated to give you enough power to run your machine. If your machine requires 400W (watts), and the transformer is only rated for 300W, then you'll only be getting 3/4 of the required power.

You may want to consider buying a sewing machine in France. There is at least one lady who posts here who lives in France, if not two, and she/they might be able to help.

HTH

Sarah

Listen to him. If you don't change the cycles, the motor will burn out. Many things can do with just the voltage change, but nothing with brushes will last.

I went through something similar when I 'imported' an American husband here to Australia. I had an old old Singer sewing machine that I loved, but was falling to pieces. When my hubby came over he brought with him all his belongings, and these included his mother's old sewing machine built into a lovely table! And it was the same model as mine, only hardly ever used. But of course I could not use it here in Australia without a transformer. But what I did I removed the motor from my old machine and put it into his. And it worked! So if you are used to your machine perhaps you can buy the same model somewhere in a junk shop - all you need is a motor, and have it swapped.

We had some equipment running on transformers, and these transformers were always buzzing and overheating, I was constantly worried about that.

Anna

If the motor is external, such as with the Singer 128, 129, 15 (except

-91), 66, 115, 221 - you can swap out the motor. If the motor is internal, such as with the 15-91, 101, 201, 301, 401, etc., you can't.

As many people will tell you, when they started putting the motors inside the machine housing, they created problems for us in later years, since the motors stopped being available, and you can't just pop any motor into the space.

Look carefully inside the motor housing, especially on earlier models: you will sometimes find that they are the exact same motor as used in the external housing but not in the pretty case! Well, not that those external motors were pretty, exactly...