I have a small Singer with minimal instructions. I did not know how to oil it and emailed the company. They gave me the reference to another machine with the instructions in one page. I now have a Janome and I not only read the manual, I took the lesson with it - learned a lot. I refer to the manual for things I could not do on the Singer. And it does not need oiling, which I found out only by reading the manual!!! I now use the Singer for travel and leave the Janome at home as it is computerized and the Singer is not. Amazing what a web site and manual can teach you.