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Old 26th Apr 2019, 5:43 pm   #12
Biggles
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Default Re: Vintage sewing machine suppressor help!

I had a similar thing happen to my wife's machine. She was sewing when it suddenly went full tilt. The capacitor inside the foot pedal had failed short circuit. Not the best thing to happen. It appears this may be a common failure. I'm pretty sure I had a fault in an industrial food mixer that we got second hand and it had a similar thing happen. This time just lots of smoke from inside the machine and the motor stopped. I think it had a thyristor controller which luckily survived apart from the capacitor.
Alan.
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