Originally Posted by ArchaicArcane

It probably does. There's bound to be some friction regardless of the oil.

Here, at least it probably didn't look like this:

The lid was covered too, on the inside. Over all, it was a really grubby machine when I got it. I thought, it'll never be a show piece, but it will be a great work horse.... it cleaned up really well though. OxiClean is what saved it.