My Elna Diva is 31 years old - sadly, it started giving me some trouble when I got down to some much-needed mending recently.
This is the first error we've had from this exceptional machine in all this time. We bought it in Germany in 1992, and brought it across to the U.S. with us when we emigrated (all we had to do was get the power supply changed to 120V).
Dale cleaned out excess fluff and lint, but even after that it would shut down again after a few stitches. We took it in to the Elna dealer in Portland, but they think that it either needs a new motor or new circuit board, neither of which is still available. We had already got to that point ourselves based on the error message on the display.
We've fetched it from the repair shop, at no cost, since they didn't really do anything besides tell us what the error message meant. Maybe more radical, nothing-to-lose tinkering at home, aka sewing machine open heart surgery, will yield results ...
Maybe we'll get lucky, and revive the ailing workhorse, who knows?
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