Thank you all for the advice....Sugar Bear is now oiled, cleaned and working...what beautiful stitches!! I am really going to love sewing on this machine. I have visited the sites you gave me. I LOVE the Featherweight 221 factory!! I download a great manual there. This friend has literally made me a collector. Everytime he moves, someone has left machines or when his mother passed...he had machines. He has given me a Singer 237 Fashionmate, a Brother Riviera 1681-M, a White Series 77 in cabinet and now my Sugar Bear!! I only had two machines, an 1891 Singer treadle (grandmother's) and a Viking #1. Machine poor, I no longer am. I love this quilt board and thank you all so much for always being there.