Not all machines need to be oiled.

Brother (the company) said not to oil mine.

my brother 270D says NOT to oil....completely sealed

My elna doesn't use oil.

My Viking does not need oil, either. It is a sealed unit and oiling is not required. There is even a warning against oiling it in the manual. One of the reasons I chose the Viking.

I just took my Janome Plat.760 in for a cleaning etc and did ask the repairman about oiling it. He said Nope, doesn't need it. He also said to have it serviced about every 1-1/2 to 2 yrs.

Ditto! I just had my machine in and I was told I would to more damage then good by oiling. Everything is sealed and so the oil would only invite the dust to stay and gum up the machine.

I would take your brother to a repair man who knows Brothers, they do oil somewhere and the bearings need to be checked and repacked. It cost me oh about $100.00 for them to clean, pack bearing oil and make sure everything was in working order. Just well worth it if it's been 5 years.

I'm so glad to here that. I was wondering the same thing. I do remember about seven years ago they told me not to oil an Elna. If I had not read this here, I probably would have put a dot of it inside my bobbin case. Thank's everyone for the answers.

Neither does my Viking. That's fine with me. I hated that job on my other machines.