NEED SEWING MACHINE REPAIRED

Sewing machines are pretty simple to repair unless they are one of the newer electronic ones.
I have looked at several friend's machines and often there is nothing really wrong with them but lack of maintainance and cleaning- they haven't been oiled in ages, underneath the hole in the needle plate is all clogged up with fuzz, and in one case, she had the needle in backwards.

I sew for a living and one day when I was complaining to a friend about how stressed I was because of all the projects clients wanted done yesterday , they said, "At least you have a job you love". I looked at them like they were crazy. They said, "You don't love sewing?" I said that sitting at a sewing machine all day cranking out the same stuff over and over again isn't something I love, no.

And weirdly, though I am 74, my up-close vision is excellent. They put glasses on me at the age of ten for distance vision, but I can read and thread needles without glasses easily.

I would happily do that, but I don't live Lakeside- I live in Sayulita, north of Puerto Vallarta! If it is one of those threaders that you push down to thread the needle and it springs back up again after, I have never had a machine like that, but my friend's had that feature. I'd assume that either the little spring is worn out, has somehow popped out and isn't there anymore, or maybe there's some bit of thread or fluff stuck in it.

Someone taught me a trick years ago for threading a needle- hold a piece of white paper behind the needle hole. It makes it so much easier to see. Although if your eyes are really bad, it might not help enough.

My brother has a lazy eye and no one realized when he was a child why he always squinted that eye- my parents thought it was just a cute little mannerism. By the time anyone realized it was because he could see better with it closed, it was too late- he weakened it by not using it and says everything looks like it's underwater with that eye, totally indistinct. Not corrrectable with glasses.

Good luck. Hope it's a simple fix.