As I hang my head in shame...
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I, too, cleaned and oiled my machine this weekend and made a world of difference I do de-liint the bobbin area every time I change bobbins, but my machine was making an unfamiliar noise. I thought it was a dull needle, so changed the needle. However, the noise was still there, The machine was sewing fine so I just ignored it for a while. When I finished the binding (Yahoo!), I removed the throat plate, cleaned the whole bobbin are completely, and oiled it. Wow, now it's soooo quiet!
As for using the canned air, I had an instructor use it one time and I commented on the inadvisability of it. She said it's fine - but blow from the back of the machine so anything that blows out goes to the front and isn't going to get pushed back into the mechanism. When I do use the air, I do it from the back. It's surprising how much junk gets blown out of that area! I also have a small vacuum clean that I use from time to time.
My machine is just purrring along now!
As for using the canned air, I had an instructor use it one time and I commented on the inadvisability of it. She said it's fine - but blow from the back of the machine so anything that blows out goes to the front and isn't going to get pushed back into the mechanism. When I do use the air, I do it from the back. It's surprising how much junk gets blown out of that area! I also have a small vacuum clean that I use from time to time.
My machine is just purrring along now!
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