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10-25-2011, 02:28 PM

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thevintageseamstress

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Join Date: Oct 2011

Location: NE Indiana

Posts: 114

I clean the old grease off and apply the new grease, old grease will look black and yucky. It's probably just a lingo they use in their shop, there is no way to pack the gears in a sewing machine with grease other that applying it directly to where the gears meet.