Do you oil your walking foot?
 

My Juki walking foot is driving me crazy with the squeaking! Do you oil yours? Do you take it apart to do so? What I have found online is that some people oil theirs without taking it apart, some people take theirs apart, and some say only the repair person should do it.

Even if I wanted to be brave and take it apart, I can't see any way to do so.

Thanks for your comments.

I oiled my Brother one once. I have no idea how to take it apart. I have a syringe with a needle that I use for oiling in tight spots. I've had no more squeeking problems.

My Juki walking foot makes a loud clacking sound that drives me nuts but I have not oiled it nor know how. I would worry the oil may transfer to the fabric. I heard squeaking once a while back and oiled the machine again and it eventually went away. Are you sure it is the walking foot squeaking?

I don't mind taking mine apart but I don't want to. Too much trouble. I do clean it with a pipe cleaner and oil the joints I can see. If it starts messing up really bad I'll buy another one but it's years old and doing great.

When I had my machine serviced a couple months ago I have them rebuild and oil my walking foot. It was quite inexpensive. I've had my walking foot for years and never had it serviced before.

I have the one that came with my Bernina, I have had it for several years, and have never had any problems with it. I have never done anything to it, and use it all the time.

When I traded out the walking foot for a different foot, no squeaking, so I'm pretty sure it's the walking foot. Even though I recently had the machine cleaned and serviced, I did oil it yesterday, but that didn't help with the squeak.

Now that I'm looking closely at the walking foot from the bottom, I see that there's a place where oil might be helpful. Hard to explain - it's the opposite, underneath end of the rake piece that sits over the screw above the needle. I can see a tiny roller that goes back and forth against another metal part of the foot. I think I will put a tiny drop of oil there and see if that helps.

I will have to make sure to sew for a while on scraps so as not to get oil on my project (see below). I am almost finished with stitching in the ditch (hence the walking foot). After that I am going to, for the first time, do some FMQing on it, although I don't have a good idea of what kind of quilting would look good. It's pretty much all rectangles, with a few squares thrown in. All ideas are welcome. :) And thank you.

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Yes, I do oil them if they squeak. I have many WF for my 30+ machines and if they are a bit noisy they get a touch of oil. Use it on a scrap for a while to make sure all the oil is worked out and it will be fine. No need to disassemble if it's working properly.

I never oil my walking foot for my Bernina but I did wear it out after quilting for others for over 10 years. They do wear out.

Just trying out my walking foot on Juki 2010. Wow is it LOUD!! Is this normal??