Miriam, for some reason your posts with the wonderful pics didn't show up till after I'd written the above response. Strange. Thanks so much for those!
Now, when you speak of grease, what kind? When I started working on this I was at my mama's house & all we had was vaseline, so I used it. What should I get. We did spray wd but only on the crevice between the hand wheel and stop motion knob.