What is a Sewing Machine?
A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies.
How To Oil A Sewing Machine In South Africa?
Clean the feed dog. Remove the bobbin. Use the brush supplied to clean the area. Remove the bobbin case.
Lubricate the points in the instructional manual with 1-2 drops of sewing machine oil. Turn the handwheel until the hook race is in the left position. Replace the hook.
What happens when you don’t oil your sewing machine?
Long-term lack of lubrication will result in wear of shafts and gears that are expensive to replace. We recommend you clean under the bobbin
case every few bobbins, add a drop or two of oil to the wick under the bobbin case if it looks dry, and a good servicing annually for your machine as a rule of thumb.
What is the best oil to use in a sewing machine?
There are two brands of sewing machine oil that we recommend for mechanical sewing machines: Sailrite Sewing Machine Oil and Super Lube Multiuse Synthetic Oil With Syncolon (PTFE).
Sailrite Oil is a highly refined, narrow-cut, non-detergent mineral oil.