Quiltingboard Forums - View Single Post - Let me ask. Does anyone know what it means when the lady at the shop said the gears need to be packed ? She wanted to have me leave one of my machines to service it but I didn't have the $ at the time. She said it needed to be cleaned, oiled and the

10-25-2011, 10:21 PM

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Gerbie

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Originally Posted by cheryl222

Just an FYI. I went to a sewing machine shop looking for grease because our Walmart did not have any. The repairman told me he didn't have any but to use Vaseline - that is what he has used for years.

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Originally Posted by Peckish

I would use white lithium grease.

I sure hope you didn't follow his advice.My mannual says to use white grease which is lithum that you can get at an auto store in a small tube, if you can't find the singer grease. My Walmart doesn't carry it either. My DH sent me to the auto store to get some. It is a very thin grease.

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