Originally Posted by
d.rickman
I need to clarify how to oil your bobbin area on your 830 - you know where the two white dots line up on top of the bobbin area, just using your oiling tube that you got with your machine, place just a drop just behind those two dots - each time you change out your bobbin (when you have used up your thread on the bobbin) - I was told this was the most important thing to keep your machine working in good order.
She should be shown how to oil her machine, not have to hear it second or third hand on a quilting forum. And actually oiling behind the dots is not clear enough and not really in the right spot! The copper colored, strip of metal behind the dot, is the part that receives the oil drop. Any dealer, that doesn't have the time to show someone who's just bought a $10,000 machine how to oil it, is not a dealer I'd buy from.