Sabine,
Please educate me on your treadle belt. Is it a cord or a spring or what?
Originally Posted by GEMRM
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!
I'll bet that machine is just cooking right along now.
I do know they take used cooking oil from the fast food restaurants, thoroughly clean it then run it in diesel buses. I've been behind one of them and the exhaust actually smells like french fries.
Hopefully she cleaned out the cooking oil and reoiled it with sewing machine oil.
Joe