BellaBoo

The no oil machines still need oil. There are on oil holes so it has to be open to oil the parts with a lube product made for the non metal parts. You need to find out where the squeak is, that part needs attention. Like when your car brakes start squeaking. Something is touching something.

Candace

Do you have a warranty left on your machine? If so, letting your husband play with the machine, will void it. The needlebar squeaking on my machine was inside the head where the needlebar met the shaft. But, that may not be your issue at all.

CAS49OR

It does not have warranty. It's 10 yrs. old, but new out of the box for 2 yrs.

CAS49OR

I have to find a schematic to see where the tech would oil it. The book says to never oil it.

Candace

The user manuals may tell the consumer not to oil it, but service manuals for technicians are different things. Typically, if the machine does need lubrication, it's in areas they don't want you opening up. That's why most manufacturers recommend yearly servicing as they don't want just anyone with a screwdriver opening the guts of the machine and possibly ruining the electronic components and voiding the warranty. If you have no warranty and you feel comfortable with your husband doing this, then he should probably be able to narrow down the squeak.

If my squeak ever came back, I'd probably try to fix it myself too as my machine is now over 13 years old and also has no warranty left for that kind of issue.

QuiltingQueen

My tech told me never to oil my machine as it gums it up. He told me the oil would do more damage then good.

CAS49OR

My husband fixed my machine up like new! He opened it up and cleaned all the dust and lint out (there wasn't much since we had both done that before) and oiled everywhere there was an oil port with sewing machine oil (sewing machine oil does not gum up). He cleaned the old grease off the gears and put new lithium grease on them. He's an auto tech so I guess he knows what the gears and spots to oil look like without a schematic although we did look for one for a month before he messed around with it.

He found the squeak that was driving me nuts!! The big belt that goes up to the hand-wheel was too close to the wheel and it was rubbing on the back of it. He loosened the set screws on the lower shaft and pushed the pulley in a smidgen to adjust the shaft so the belt wouldn't rub at the top.

If you take the belts off to exchange them make sure to use a permanent marker to mark a line across the end of the shaft and pulley so you can align the marks when you put the belt back on. I didn't have to replace my belts, they are like new. Hubby wan't sure so he took them to the sewing tech to buy new ones. The tech said they were like new and didn't need to be replaced. So, back home, after a bit of adjusting to set the timing right DH marked the shafts. Now we're set for next time.

naosew

Remove the bobbin, put a tiny drop of machine oil or lubercent in small opening at the bottom of the bobbin case. My dealer did that for my 11000 that was making a noise.

DACO48

My MC 6600 was squeaking too, I did the same thing as naosew, put a drop of oil on the wick in the bottom of the bobbin case and it stopped immediately.

CAS49OR

Someone told me about oiling the wick below the bobbin before, and I did that. My squeak was coming from the top, I'm so happy he found it and fixed it!