Lubricating Motor
I have just finished cleaning the motor on my recently acquired 66-6, and want to lubricate the bearings. The manual, and other sources on the Internet, point to the tubes on the motor end caps, above the bearings, and say to fill them with grease with a low melting point, such as now-discontinued Singer grease or petroleum jelly. I tried filling the tubes using a syringe, but I'm finding that there is very little space available to hold the grease. There is something that fills the tubes to within 1/8 inch of the top of the tubes. Probing the inside of the tube, whatever is inside is not resilient, like you'd expect a felt wick to be. I guess the question is how much grease should I expect to be able to put in the tube for the motor's annual lubrication? Would this require disassembling the motor again, and flushing the tubes with kerosene?
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