Erdin

It looks to be in it's lowest or almost lowest point, it applies quite the amount of pressure on the feed ring and leather.

@shoepatcher Ideally, I would have to bring it up a bit. What I could do is either build up where it is worn, which I don't know of it's possible, or sand the upper part of the "hook". What do you think?

Good evening everyone. Complete noob on sewing machines here. I recently bought a vintage singer 18-3 sewing machine and it has a feed problem I'm trying to fix. When I am manually operating the wheel, it feeds ok most of the time (it does skip stitches and changes stitch length because of the feed issue, see imgur link), but as soon as I use the motor it came with, it doesn't feed at all. The feed wheel driver slips, not moving the feed wheel. I am thinking it could be because of the wear on the wheel driver, but I am not sure how much wear is too much wear. What do you guys think could be the problem? Video -> https://imgur.com/a/adsgxdh When it stitches Feed wheel driver Feed wheel driver wear Feed wheel driver wear