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Old 12-28-2014, 03:46 PM
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GEMRM
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Joe - it isn't just the olden days that people oiled with whatever was at hand - my friend recently oiled her 1960's era Singer with vegetable oil. It had seized up on her, she took it apart and just poured some oil into it until it started to move. Made me cringe!
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