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FEAR OF OILING It’s gotta be done. I just don’t wanna do it today. What is my problem?
jadamo00 Advanced NY USA Member since 3/13/06 Posts: 1234	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 6/9/12 1:15 PM It’s on my list for today so I GOTTA. Oil my machine. I’m using THIS EXCELLENT TUTORIAL (not necessarily for Featherweights) and I’ve broken the task into 8 steps 1) Vaccuum in and around machine 2) ASSEMBLE MATERIALS: Oil, towel, pins, Q-tips, flashlight, magnifying glass 3) Oil outside: front, back, top, right left: clean holes, oil holes, oil where metal meets metal and moves. 4) Bobbin winding mechanism 5) Open Panel and oil 6) Open faceplate and oil 7) Bobbin holding mechanism 8) Bottom of machine I did steps one and two. Now I need to take a nap… Argh! Why am I feeling such nagging resistance to doing this!?
nancy2001   Advanced AL USA Member since 12/3/05 Posts: 6113	Login to reply to this post In reply to jadamo00 << Like this post Date: 6/9/12 1:39 PM The tutorial may be a little too "excellent." Instead of going for a Ph.D. in oiling why don't you try for a simple BA or even a GED. Take out your 221 manual or your Featherweight & I book and just put the oil in all spots on the chart. Perhaps your machine doesn't really need to be oiled today. This is what David McCallum says about oiling in the Featherweight and I, "Listen to your machine. Get to know it's "normal" sound. When it begins a mild little ticking sound, oil it. Does wonders." ------ The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. Richard Dawkins
JillyBe Intermediate CA USA Member since 1/20/10 Posts: 3194	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 6/9/12 1:56 PM What nancy said. Rain (who wrote the "excellent" tutorial) is very, very good at what he does. But you are not going to harm your machine with a tiny drop too much, or too little, or not getting every little piece of gunk out the first time you oil it. Just put a drop in all of the suggested spots. Done. Your machine will thank you. You will feel better. Smile. Breathe. ------ http://jillybejoyful.blogspot.com/ a blog about creativity, sewing, vintage sewing machines, and...... life :)
hazelnut   Beginner USA Member since 1/7/09 Posts: 2286	Login to reply to this post In reply to jadamo00 << Like this post Date: 6/9/12 2:16 PM Quote: FEAR OF OILING It’s gotta be done. I just don’t wanna do it today. What is my problem? Picture your sweet, little SM sitting there *parched* and gasping for oil. Now go give it some nourishment! LOL Seriously, don't be afraid to oil a vintage machine - they can take it. If you squeeze a little too much somewhere, just wipe it off with a cloth. It won't hurt the metal parts. After I oil mine, I also run them for several minutes to let the oil "run through it's veins".
a7yrstitch   Intermediate TX USA Member since 4/1/08 Posts: 4390	Login to reply to this post In reply to jadamo00 << 1 member likes this. Date: 6/9/12 2:40 PM A machine without oil is like a Brooklyn girl without attitude. Not very smooth. ------ I have no idea what Apple thought I was saying so be a Peach and credit anything bizarre to auto correct.
jadamo00 Advanced NY USA Member since 3/13/06 Posts: 1234	Login to reply to this post In reply to a7yrstitch << Like this post Date: 6/9/12 2:54 PM Okay, okay, I think I know what my problem is. Talk me through this. This my beloved 1916 Singer which I have worked on ALL MY LIFE. What's bothering me is this: What about the minute, atom-sized bits of dust that are already in the little holes? Like deep down. Like from the past 96 years. Shouldn't that be cleaned out before I oil? What I'm saying -- and this will reveal my tendency to obsess -- wouldn't THE RIGHT, THE MORAL thing be to take this entire machine apart, clean everything to as close to factory-new as possible and then reassemble it and oil? Man, I just want to finish my Stella McCartney rip-off raincoat here! I am making myself crazy. j. -- Edited on 6/9/12 3:19 PM --
LynnRowe   Advanced BC CANADA Member since 3/9/09 Posts: 6765	Login to reply to this post In reply to jadamo00 << Like this post Date: 6/9/12 3:24 PM It takes me 5 minutes to fully oil and lube a FW. That's all it'll take you, too. Get a towel and your oil and lube. Oil the tower, head and under the spindle cover, dab some lube on the gear. Take faceplate off and dab a drop of oil in each place per manual...or everywhere metal touches metal. Flip the baby over and do the tummy area, add a dab of lube to the gears. Done. If nothing's wrong with your machine, just needs routine oiling, ignore all the other stuff and just dab some oil where oil is needed...5 minutes and your nightmare you're giving yourself (needlessly!) will be over. And then you're gonna feel sooooo silly. ------ I heart Panzy, Pfaff Creative Performance, the sewing machine love of my life! And Rupert (Pfaff 2023), Baby (BL Enlighten), Victor (BLCS), Ash (Bernina 350SE), Pal (Bernina 530), Kee (Bernina 750) and the Featherteen Flock! Most of all, I heart Woo (HimmyCat). Until we meet again, my beautiful little boy. I love you.
LynnRowe   Advanced BC CANADA Member since 3/9/09 Posts: 6765	Login to reply to this post In reply to jadamo00 << Like this post Date: 6/9/12 3:27 PM In a word, no. if it ain't broke... It's taken your machine decades to acquire that smoothness that makes vintage machines so wonderful to work with. Just feed it some oil! RIGHT NOW!!! ------ I heart Panzy, Pfaff Creative Performance, the sewing machine love of my life! And Rupert (Pfaff 2023), Baby (BL Enlighten), Victor (BLCS), Ash (Bernina 350SE), Pal (Bernina 530), Kee (Bernina 750) and the Featherteen Flock! Most of all, I heart Woo (HimmyCat). Until we meet again, my beautiful little boy. I love you.
jadamo00 Advanced NY USA Member since 3/13/06 Posts: 1234	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 6/9/12 3:34 PM Okay, NOW I'm worried THAT THE CHEAP Q-TIPS I'M USING TO CLEAN THE LITTLE HOLES IS LEAVING MORE LINT BEHIND THAN WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE! I AM FLIPPIN' LOSIN' IT! -- Edited on 6/9/12 3:36 PM --
LynnRowe   Advanced BC CANADA Member since 3/9/09 Posts: 6765	Login to reply to this post In reply to jadamo00 << Like this post Date: 6/9/12 4:12 PM Don't make me come down there and smack you upside the head... ------ I heart Panzy, Pfaff Creative Performance, the sewing machine love of my life! And Rupert (Pfaff 2023), Baby (BL Enlighten), Victor (BLCS), Ash (Bernina 350SE), Pal (Bernina 530), Kee (Bernina 750) and the Featherteen Flock! Most of all, I heart Woo (HimmyCat). Until we meet again, my beautiful little boy. I love you.

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