I bought this sewing machine at a garage sale. The lady selling it told me that it did work. She bought a new sewing machine a couple years ago. I do not know much about sewing machines I did plug it in the footpedal works. The light comes on , I am going to picture the box full of extra items what you see is what you get if you do have questions, you could direct them to me and I will try to answer them as well as possible.