Good advice from nanna-up-north. You can go from 0-60 in 10 seconds flat.....with instructions, going slowly, and absorbing everything you are doing, you can DIY. I have been sewing all my life and cleaning and oiling them, preparing them for use for over 40 of those years. As you can see I am old--nearly 80--and still going strong. I have just spent my entire Sunday afternoon teaching my GD (14 years old) how to piece and quilt a quilt that she wants to sell as a project for her soccer team fund raising efforts. I told her I would help her if she would enter it in the county fair; that if she gets a blue ribbon for her efforts she can ask more money for it. She was thrilled, and didn't back down or act goofy at all learning how to do the l/4" seams, nesting her seams (on a FW), and went right to the Gammill for the quilting part. That two ton machine didn't intimidate her one bit. As soon as I can get her brother over here to help me post a picture, I'll do that. I am busting my buttons proud of her.
Sorry to get side-tracked there, go ahead and try your own hand at your sewing machine servicing. I had a good friend in Austin who was a wonderful sewing machine repair person, but that was during the 80s--he probably isn't even alive anymore--anyway his name is Gus Gonzales. If you run across him, ask him if he remembers a lady from Bastrop whom he taught to repair and fix sewing machines.
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