Originally Posted by #1piecemaker
My friend has this old long arm machine that we have been trying to get adjusted. Neither one of us know what we are doing. She bought it from someone else and didn't ask any questions. She said we had to change the oil in it. We had to literally pick the machine up off it's base and pour the oil in to the fill line. Are all of them like that or is there an easier way. Her machine was very heavy and it took both of us to do it? And how often does that have to be done under normal use?
That sounds like an old longarm or one of the older stretched machines. The newer styles are more like a domestic machine in that you only oil the bobbin race. Some of the more industrial looking ones have little oil holes that you put a drop in before you start every day. My Voyager has the little holes and I believe the Noltings do, also.