Did I just buy a freak sewing machine?
At a garage sale I bought a nearly new sewing machine. It had everything with it except a foot control pedal. No worries I thought to myself, I will look up the part on ebay and poof I will be ready to roll. Alas, it appears everything with the same model number had a different plug. All my pedal needs looks to be a 1/8” plug. It is a Singer 3820–1 which, to my chagrin turns up bupkis at the Singer site. I am sure there are probably manuals and stuff out there so I can learn about this thing but I’m not having very much luck when all they do is tack on a -1 on the end of a model number when they go electronic. heavy sigh..
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If you are in the US, have you tried using the Sears website? It offers an online service that may be of assistance.
Maybe you can buy a plug adapter. Or buy an appropriate foot pedal then cut the off the plug connections and hard-wire the foot pedal to your sewing machine.
Well, a look at page 15 of the parts list indicates that the foot pedal is 001251409 which is this one.
However, a picture of the end of your sewing machine would help immensely.
After much fighting with Dropbox lets see if this works. If successful This should be be the model and This Should be the machine.
Hooray! Stinkin’ dropbox does my bidding at last!
Bad news….
Those links take me to a login page, so I had to create a Dropbox account and install something that didn’t play nice with my security setup, only to find out that those pics are not publicly available; only you can see them. I think you need to double-check your “Share” setting. It works for you because your browser has the cookies (including password) to get in there stored, but mine doesn’t.
I use Imgur for my image sharing as I find it a lot simpler.
Nuts… Back to the drawing board.
Okay, close enough for me to get what I needed and it seems that your machine is a bit of a freak.
At a glance, it seems that it uses the same #87352 foot pedal as many Singer 74xx-series machines like this. I’m not sure, but that seems to be it.
As for the power cord, it’s pretty close to what I use on my PS2 and boom box; not exact, but enough “notched tombstone” plugs exist that they’re relatively easy to find something close enough. The closest I found there was this universal one,
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