Originally Posted by
sewbeadit
Mickey2, I read the book and did all that they said but when it came to greasing the motor it is different. There are two grease cups up under the hand wheel and you are supposed to put the old grease tube up in there and squeeze it into the two cups and then put the thumb screws back in, well with the new grease tubes you can't reach it.
There are ways about it; I use the
grease gun for Finish Line tubes, I couldn't find one for TriFlow, but found a converter nossle to fit the threads in the TriFlow tube. They are available in various sizes and from different makers. There might be other clever ways to deliver grease into hard to reach places.
Originally Posted by
sewbeadit
Taking off the hand wheel would'nt help at all. I hope I explained that well enough.
From a series of pictures in a
blog post, it looked to me like the worm gear could be greased directly from behind the hand wheel.
Originally Posted by
sewbeadit
About the plate on the spool pin, I looked on google and there are tons of them with and without, so still doesn't tell me if some of these came without those darn plates! Thank you for your help.
Look at Cari-in-Oly's machine: at the base of the spool pin there is a round metal washer like part. This part on my 201 is differently made, these metal like washers aren't there. When I take of the spool pin plate it's a flat part with three wholes, the one in the middle takes the spool pin the two on the sides are oil points. The base under the spool pin plate is formed like a tiny flat plain on a otherwise roundly shaped body. It's all black painted cast iron. If your's is like Cari's there is no place for the plate to fit on, and if it's flat like my machine, it can have one. This might help you to tell if there might have been a plate there, or never was intended in the first place.
Here I found a picture of one that might have had a plate at one point. (from
this blog).
