Originally Posted by BoJangles

Joe, I know you said you used Tri-Flow to clean/oil the machine, but do you think maybe some service repair guy used that "self-oiling" crap that Viking came out with? They put that on their machines claiming the machines were "self-oiling" and didn't need to be oiled. That stuff messed up so many machines after it hardened and gummed up. Even though your machine is not a Viking, there were service people using that crap to oil machines - ruined a lot of machines! That gave Viking a bad name for a time because so many of their machines got ruined from the stuff, but it wasn't the machine that was defective - it was their "self-oiling" crap.

Nancy