Kitchen Small Electric Appliances - Bernina 830 Sewing machine adjustment

I inherited a Bernina 830 sewing machine that needs a bit of adjustment on the walking foot. I cleaned and oiled the machine that I do not believe was ever used much and it purrs. It is a nice machine.

When I first tried it out, it hardly fed the fabric at all, so I took a look at the walking foot. It was barely coming up out of the base plate and you couldnt adjust the stitch size/length. I played around with an adjustment under the bottom cover and I have it so that the stitch length is pretty good now, but reverse won't work.

I am wondering what the correct adjustment should be. I think I know what to adjust but I am sure there is a specification for how much the teeth should come up out of the base, etc. And I am sure with the proper adjsutment, reverse will work.

I found a couple of places that sell adjustment manuals but being cheap I am hoping someone has a hint.

Thanks.

I'm pretty sure your machine is not a walking foot machine.
The feed dog should be up just enough to grab the fabric but I don't enough about your machine to tell you how much.
If it's not going in reverse and you had trouble with the stitch length, there's something else wrong. It has nothing to do with the feed dog (I think this might be what you're calling the walking foot).
It may pay to buy a repair manual. Check out this site's knowledge base which may help:

Ultimate Sew and Vac (http://www.sewingandvac.com/)

I am not quite sure of the nomenclature: what is out of adjustment is the thingie with serated teeth that comes up out of the base of the machine, under the changeable shoes.

It seems to work fine as far as back and forth, but the adjustment is off. I am not sure how far above the base it ought to rise. I have played around with it, but cant seem to get reverse and a constant spacing on the stitch length, with the same adjustment.

I can down load a manual from England for $8 but i am hoping I can save the $$$

Thanks

thingie with serated teeth that comes up out of the base of the machine
That's the feed dog

changeable shoes They're the presser feet

When you have the stitch length set to "0", the feed dog should be perfectly level and flat (no teeth coming up). This is the setting for darning, so that the fabric will not feed.

The reverse is unrelated to the feed dog. May be a gear that's frozen up. Try warming it up with a blow dryer.

Sounds like a good place to start.

I will see how that works as a starting place for the adjustment. Understanding that 0 means no feed is good information for me. Thanks