I was sewing with my 1530 when all of a sudden the needle stopped moving. I can manually move the needle up and down with my fingers, but the motor on the machine will not. Any suggestions?

We do sell brand new motor armatures for this machine if you want to do the job by yourself or we can exchange the motor with a reconditioned motor for you to place in the machine. If you want more information please visit our website www.sewingmachine.com.au

If the handwheel rotates and the bobbin winder functions OK but the needle bar is not going up and down and is just free to move, the probability is that the basting solenoid has tripped the needle bar drive and that there's some contamination build-up on the needle-bar drive hole so that it wont click back in on the upward stroke. You can try pushing the needle bar fully up into the head (dont force it), in the hope it'll click back in, but if it's in need of cleaning, it'll probably drop out again and anyway, its no solution if you are using a basting stitch. Have you been using a basting stitch - if so, this is the most likely reason. It's not too hard to remedy, but does require dismantling the machine to get at the needle bar drive in order to clean and lubricate it - not a job you can do yourself, I'm afraid, so it's probably off to the service engineer this time ... sorry !

I was able to find one at www.ifixmachines.com