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   Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼 (elfkin@woof.group)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 04:02:50 JST Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

   With some strategically placed oil*, I was able to get my Singer HD6800 working again.

   If I had it to do all over again, y’all, I would never have bothered with modern domestic #sewing machines. Vintage (pre-1980) machines are where it’s at when it comes to domestic models (you all know I love my Singer 201!).

   * A machine whose maintenance guide mentions nothing about oiling in its manual and whose case is hermetically sealed.

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 04:02:49 JST valhalla

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     @elfkin when I got my current sewing machine (a modern domestic one, in the same Singer line, but mechanical rather than electronic) the first thing I did was reading the manual, not finding anything about oiling it, going back to the shop, asking something like “ok, where am I supposed to put oil in this thing”.

     They explained, and since then we have been living happily ever after :D

     (the case wasn't sealed, however, it has easily accessible screws)

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 04:03:46 JST valhalla

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     @elfkin also: quality time with your sewing machine and a bottle of oil! that's one of the nice relaxing sewing-related things!
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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 04:10:14 JST valhalla

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     @elfkin (oh, and this was allowed by the fact that the sewing machine shop was at easy walking distance from my home, which is definitely not that common)
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     Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼 (elfkin@woof.group)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 16:17:24 JST Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

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     • valhalla

     @valhalla I was being a bit hyperbolic. The case isn’t completely sealed, but it’s not as easy to open as the all-mechanical version. I opened it to oil back in May and have barely used the machine since, but apparently the hook race is super thirsty. That’s what needed extra oil to get the machine working again.

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     Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼 (elfkin@woof.group)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 16:19:18 JST Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼

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     • 🜏⛧Neph the Rubber Dog⛧🜏

     @Nephilim Such good fortune! I’ll bet it purrs like a kitten when it runs.

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     🜏⛧Neph the Rubber Dog⛧🜏 (nephilim@woof.group)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 16:19:23 JST 🜏⛧Neph the Rubber Dog⛧🜏

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     @elfkin my partner/girlfriend and I just picked this Rex by Nakajima 345-2L up earlier today for her. She has a Brother embroidery/sewing machine, but needed something for more intensive applications like multiple layers of denim and nylon. She has been sewing for the last few hours since we set it up, and she loves it.

     It came with the original manual, but we have not found much about it online besides it was probably made prior to Juki buying out the company in 1965.