Caroline,

This is gonna sound like I'm trying to be a "know it all" which I'm not, but the only SM motors I know of that use grease as lube are Singers. If you pull a motor like that one apart you'll usually find a felt washer surrounding a bronze bushing. The felt holds the oil in the bushing area as the bushing absorbs it.

If your motor gets hot enough the grease might melt into the bushings ... "if" it's not Tri-Flow. If it is get as much out as you can and oil it with sewing machine oil. I'd oil it anyway.

Joe

ah - do join the clone club - post a pic here: http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...p-t164361.html

I will do that Miriam. Right now I am fighting/fixing the stitch regulator which does not work. It did not like the bobbin case I first used (that was missing) so I took the one out of my Belair to use. The Mercury liked it. It does make a nice stitch though but all I can get is a long stitch.

Get a flashlight and look up in there - look for something that is suppose to move and won't - then oil it - maybe needs a little heat

Be careful though, you might find a mouse nest like Miriam's got in a couple of her machines. LOL

Joe

White 77 Rotaries also have grease tubes. As a general rule, if it takes grease there'll be tubes hanging beneath the motor to unscrew & fill with grease. If it takes oil, there'll be oil holes.

And I've always heard to only use Tri-Flow grease on gears...Use Singer Lubricant on motors.

I guess some pictures of the Dial-O-Matic stitch regulator are in order. I removed the stitch regulator assembly and everything inside appears to be working inside, not frozen. Perhaps this one will need to go to the OSMG and see if he can figure it out. This one may be beyond my limited fixing abilities. FRUSTRATING!

Very nice...and I'm proud of your negotiating skills! You go girl!

Is the dial not turning? Or is it a lever? What is going on? I have one that the dial and the reverse button froze up. I had to get way in there and soak the inside with Triflow - I must have oiled it every day for a week and gave up on it. I went back a month later and it works fine. The stuff just has to get in to the right places. On mine, there is a thing in there shaped like a ramp like thing - it was gunky.