Originally Posted by
sdhaevrsi
I thought gears all needed grease, but on the upper gear on the Singer 201, the one you get to behind the round plate on the back, all I can find is the information to OIL it. Does it not need greased? (It doesn't look like there has ever been grease on it.) Is it not a gear, though it looks to me like what I think of as a gear?
The gear I am talking about is the arrow to the right of the "B" in the photo below.
Oil it then. I've greased this gear in the past but that's only because I'd never read that it required oil: I'll be oiling it from now on.
The engineers who wrote this weren't stupid, looking at the machine they made: It's a brilliant machine and a pleasure to use.