Do you oil your walking foot?
09-11-2014, 11:51 AM
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Do you oil your walking foot?
My Juki walking foot is driving me crazy with the squeaking! Do you oil yours? Do you take it apart to do so? What I have found online is that some people oil theirs without taking it apart, some people take theirs apart, and some say only the repair person should do it.
Even if I wanted to be brave and take it apart, I can't see any way to do so.
Thanks for your comments.
Even if I wanted to be brave and take it apart, I can't see any way to do so.
Thanks for your comments.
09-11-2014, 01:14 PM
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My Juki walking foot makes a loud clacking sound that drives me nuts but I have not oiled it nor know how. I would worry the oil may transfer to the fabric. I heard squeaking once a while back and oiled the machine again and it eventually went away. Are you sure it is the walking foot squeaking?
09-11-2014, 01:15 PM
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I don't mind taking mine apart but I don't want to. Too much trouble. I do clean it with a pipe cleaner and oil the joints I can see. If it starts messing up really bad I'll buy another one but it's years old and doing great.
09-11-2014, 01:55 PM
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When I traded out the walking foot for a different foot, no squeaking, so I'm pretty sure it's the walking foot. Even though I recently had the machine cleaned and serviced, I did oil it yesterday, but that didn't help with the squeak.
Now that I'm looking closely at the walking foot from the bottom, I see that there's a place where oil might be helpful. Hard to explain - it's the opposite, underneath end of the rake piece that sits over the screw above the needle. I can see a tiny roller that goes back and forth against another metal part of the foot. I think I will put a tiny drop of oil there and see if that helps.
I will have to make sure to sew for a while on scraps so as not to get oil on my project (see below). I am almost finished with stitching in the ditch (hence the walking foot). After that I am going to, for the first time, do some FMQing on it, although I don't have a good idea of what kind of quilting would look good. It's pretty much all rectangles, with a few squares thrown in. All ideas are welcome.
And thank you.
Now that I'm looking closely at the walking foot from the bottom, I see that there's a place where oil might be helpful. Hard to explain - it's the opposite, underneath end of the rake piece that sits over the screw above the needle. I can see a tiny roller that goes back and forth against another metal part of the foot. I think I will put a tiny drop of oil there and see if that helps.
I will have to make sure to sew for a while on scraps so as not to get oil on my project (see below). I am almost finished with stitching in the ditch (hence the walking foot). After that I am going to, for the first time, do some FMQing on it, although I don't have a good idea of what kind of quilting would look good. It's pretty much all rectangles, with a few squares thrown in. All ideas are welcome.
And thank you.
09-11-2014, 02:20 PM
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Yes, I do oil them if they squeak. I have many WF for my 30+ machines and if they are a bit noisy they get a touch of oil. Use it on a scrap for a while to make sure all the oil is worked out and it will be fine. No need to disassemble if it's working properly.
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