My foot pedal wont move the needle, and my handwheel wont budge. Nothing i can see is causing it to bind. What could be the problem?

Try the following.

Presser foot up.
Rotate handwheel so needle up.
Remove top thread, spool, and bobbin.

Power off

Select straight stitch pattern 2.
Select stitch width 2.5 - needle position middle.
Set tension to 4.

Power on.

1. Press foot pedal.
2. If still knocks, remove needle.
3. Press foot pedal.
4. If still knocks, move bobbin winding spindle all the way right and back all the way left.
5. Press foot pedal.
6. If still knock, remove bobbin case (pg 47 in manual)
7. Press foot pedal.
8. if here and still knock... not sure what it is.

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Nov 8, 2013 - We have a Brother Limited Edition Project Runway Sewing MachineRefurbished LS2250PRW. I was trying to sew on a button and was turning the hand wheel to do ... front near the needle where you can run the machine with foot pedal ...just what I would experience when my Bernina was running, or not, ...

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The thread is being picked up from underneath, but will not form a stitch at all. ... Butwhen I push my pedal down my needle won't move, the motor runs, but nothing happens. ... I have a Bernina machine which is sewing OK with the normal foot. ....The hand wheel, the wheel at the end that manually turns to make the needle ...

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Motor is locked down. Do Not Energize! take to factory certified service repair person. You will burn up motor or even worse "start a fire" if you try to run it. something is binding motor, this could be many different things.

Have you removed the bobbin and inspected the area? Quite possibly there is thread or lint that is preventing movement in that area.

Move bobbin winder to LEFT. Your machine is set to wind a bobbin.
Hope this helps!
Jimmy

If you can not turn the handwheel at all there is a bind in the machine somewere. The most comon place that this will happen is in the hook/bobbin/race area. Follow these steps and it may fix your problem.
Remove needle and bobbin case.
We need to open the race and remove the hook. (The race is the black round part that the bobbin goes inside.)
On the left part of the race there is a small steel clip that you push to the left and it should fall open.
Then remove the hook, it may have fallen out alreay. (It is just right behind the race.)
Clean out that area and make sure there is no broken needle/lint/ ect.
Test to see if handwheel is moving freely with the parts out.
If so lubricate the hook and put it all back together. Should be ready to sew.
Hook needs to be lubricated every 2-3 bobbins

If this does not fix it probably will need to take it in for repair.
Also check to make sure your bobbin winder is not on (I dont think that is it but ill mention it).
Hope this helps

the clutch is out. that allows you to wind a bobbin. take it out of bobbin mode and put it in sew mode (clutch in)

A FRIEND GAVE ME A SUPERLOCK 2000 WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. THE HANDWHEEL WAS HARD TO TURN AND MACHINE WONT RUN WHEN PLUGGED IN. I OPENED THE SIDE COVER WHERE HANDWHEEL IS LOCATED. FOUND THE BELT WAS DRIVEN OFF THE MOTOR. PUT ON THE BELT ON THE MOTOR, OILED THE MOVING PARTS.
WOKRING GREAT NOW.