sewingsuz

I am using my old 1050 viking because my bernina is having its biannual check up and cleaning. I have not used the viking very much since it was cleaned but now it is making noise like a thrashing machine. The sewing is just fine but the noise is awful. Does anyone know what this could be? Thanks in advance for some help.

Candace

Sounds like your Viking needs a service and cleaning too.

SteveH

The only help I can offer is that the original grease used in the older Vikings will harden with lack of use.

I was told by my OSMG it is recommended that if they sit for over 1 year, that they be opened up, cleaned, and re-greased.

miriam

yup get it lubed so nothing breaks

Macybaby

DH says yours is a slightly newer model from mine. They are not made to be oiled (I didn't oil mine for 30 years of hard use - and I still don't). Mine gets noisy when it gets lint around the bobbin case and needs a good cleaning. Once in a great while I'll put just a small amount of oil around the hook area (which on mine means removing 4 screws to get at it).

This machine has stepper motors, so not really anything to grease either.

BTW - this is a generation after the ones with the grease that hardens up like a rock. At least that is going by the pictures and info that DH found on the internet.

Also, when poeple say "old" on this board, they usually mean 60-100 years old, not 25 LOL!! Mine is only 32 years old, so I don't even consider one of my vintage machines. It's a Viking 990

Rodney

Age is relative isn't it? It's been a couple years ago. I had an 18 yr old with me and we stopped at a garage sale. There was a 1980s TV there that he liked. He called it "vintage". It really made me feel old. To me it was just an old TV with really no saving graces(ugly black plastic thing with fake wood grain), to him it was a pretty cool old TV.

For Steve any sewing machine made after about 1900 is new, for me new starts with the 1960s and 70s when plastic started being used more and more.
Rodney

SteveH

Yeah, you got that right. I have had a couple of times where friends who know that I collect "old" sewing machines have sent me links to pictures of 20's and 30's machines (even a couple of 50's and 60's machines) and I have had to clarify what "my" definition of old is. One friend replied "Where the heck could you find machines that old?" I replied "fortunately and unfortunately... everywhere"