Hi Kelly, You might want to check out the Vintage Machine group and see what you can find out. I can see part of your machine in the background of the picture you posted with the beautiful miniature quilt and it sure looks a lot like my Singer 401. I have the manual and if you think it would help I can take a picture of the oiling diagram and post it to you. Basically in addition to oil ports on top of the machine there are more under the little door where you put the cams. There's also a diagram that shows putting a drop of oil on the moving parts behind the faceplate and there are a couple of little oil ports in there too. Hope this is some help to get you started. Let me know if you would like pictures or if you can confirm that the 401 and the 417 are pretty similar. I couldn't find any decent pictures of the 417 online, but there are quite a few of the 401. I'm kind of new at this and probably there are lots of places to look that I don't know about. Good luck!