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1 hour ago, KathyBrown said:

Hello, I am from Oregon and a long-time sewer, mostly of clothing and now leather bags. A few weeks ago I purchased a Consew with a Premier 550W Servo motor. I found it way too fast and changed out the pulley to a 45mm one through Amazon, and got a shorter belt to fit. Yesterday I finally got all set up and noticed that the handwheel on the machine is Very hard to turn and there is a squeak/ squeal coming from the motor when I manually turn the wheel. (this was not present before) I thought it might be the belt or my assembly of the pulley, so I took off the belt and the handwheel turns fine, but the squeak remains even if I take off the nut holding on the pulley and partially remove it. It seems to be coming from the motor, as if it has a brake on.  There is no noise or hesitation when sewing (although I stopped until This is resolved.) I called the dealer and they plan to call back tomorrow.

Any ideas? 

Kathy B.

Yes, your motor has a cork brake. Give it a little pedal to disengage the brake when you hand wheel. This is a learning curve experience. There may even be a means of adjusting slack motion between full braking and the release point. Otherwise, the brake may have to come off, or be ground/sanded down.

Posted IMHO, by Wiz

My current crop of sewing machines:

Cowboy CB4500, Singer 107w3, Singer 139w109, Singer 168G101, Singer 29k71, Singer 31-15, Singer 111w103, Singer 211G156, Adler 30-7 on power stand, Techsew 2700, Fortuna power skiver and a Pfaff 4 thread 2 needle serger.

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