Best Sewing Machine Oil?
#12
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try the tri-flow oil. many of the vintage machines we score today have sat forever without use so your kenmore cannot use that as an excuse. maybe you just need to oil more frequently like every day. i am sewing on my singer 15-91 (i just love jo-jo) and i oil her everyday. she just purrs along happily.
Will try to get a good picture, of the area I think may be the problem.
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Aside from oiling, have you lubed the gears? Lube *goes* get old, sticky and gummy. On old machines I get a tube of sewing machine lubrication, try to scrape off as much as I can of the old stuff on the gears, then add new lubrication. Just be careful where you put the lubrication -- it goes *only* on gears (the things with teeth).
It may be that when you put new oil on, there's enough excess oil to compensate for sticky gears.
It may be that when you put new oil on, there's enough excess oil to compensate for sticky gears.
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If it's sewing, slows and down and then races when you push on the pedal, it sounds like the pedal itself could be faulty. I would definitely get that checked out. It could be overheating and causing problems like that.
#15
From what I've learned about oiling and lubricating (and yes, tri flow is the best!), it should be oil and sew. Not oil and sit. The older machines have a lot of metal to metal places that need TLC. I also agree that the foot pedal might have an issue.
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Aside from oiling, have you lubed the gears? Lube *goes* get old, sticky and gummy. On old machines I get a tube of sewing machine lubrication, try to scrape off as much as I can of the old stuff on the gears, then add new lubrication. Just be careful where you put the lubrication -- it goes *only* on gears (the things with teeth).
It may be that when you put new oil on, there's enough excess oil to compensate for sticky gears.
It may be that when you put new oil on, there's enough excess oil to compensate for sticky gears.
Last edited by Havplenty; 07-17-2012 at 11:33 AM.
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the vintage machine group swears by tri-flow. it's on my list of oils to get. you can also ask on that thread about your kenmore and its issues. maybe someone can assist or have had the same issues and can offer some advice.
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I don't think it's the foot pedal, as when the sticking occurs, the hand wheel is also sluggish to turn. Here's a picture, of the possible problem area (2), along with some mysterious goop (1). In the (2) area, there's a groove/scratch, which probably shouldn't be there. Can't get into the area, to see the plates on either side. The (2) spot is one to be oiled; the oil doesn't seem to stay on it, at all.
The goop feels like Vaseline. Could that be a build-up of old oil?
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The goop feels like Vaseline. Could that be a build-up of old oil?
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Last edited by Neesie; 07-18-2012 at 08:04 AM.
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