CLEANING THE SEWING MACHINE

Shannon News, 9 December 1927, Page 2

CLEANING THE SEWING MACHINE

Before you ask your sewing machine to commence its year's work it would be well to see that it is in firstclass order. Arrange to give it an hour of your time, una before setting

to work put on a large apron as a protection from possible oil drops and assemble the cleaning supplies. A piece of clean butter muslin, or other soft, clean material, a flat brush, a small bottle of kerosene, and a bottle of good sewing machine oil are all that is needed, for a large and small screwdriver and a stiletto should be part of. your sewing machine equipment. Place a box cover at one end of the machine table, and put in it the small parts in the order in which they are removed from the machine. Remove the spool of thread, the bobbin, and the cover slide of the bobbin, the needle and the pressor foot. Next remove the needle plate, which is directly under the pressor foot and covers th e space around the feed. Start cleaning by brushing the lint and dust,from the upper side of the bobbin holder. With a pin, or the point of the stiletto, gently remove the dirt from the teeth of the feed. Carefully rub clean all the exposed parts that may have oil on them and dust collected by the oil, turn the head of the machine back, and use the stiletto to remov 0 any dust and thread from the parts which cannot be reached by the cloth, and which the brush is not stiff enough to remove. If there are any spots of hardened oil which cannot be removed by brush or cloth, they can be loosened by the

use of a little kerosene. When all

tho P«rts are clean use. the sewingmachine oil in all the oil holes. While the head of the machine is turned back clean and oil all the other parts underneath. With the brush and eioth clean also the parts which are in the upright portion of the machine head. The head may now be lowered into position, and the balance wheel cleaned and oiled. When this has neon don e and all surplus oil wiped away as it oozed out, clean and oil the driving wheel and the treadle parts.

You ar 0 now ready to replace the parts which you removed at the beginning of the cleaning operations. When you have done so thread the machine and stitch on an old piece of material until you are sure that every bit of excess oil has been removed. Jt is obvious that even n trace of oil remaining would mean trouble.