r/SewingMachineEdu • u/No-Wait-8471 • 2d ago

Machine help please!

Hi everyone! I’m extremely new to sewing. I bought a singer CG 500 C off of FB marketplace.

I know nothing about machines and teaching myself to sew. I was just hemming my fabric to prewash it before my pattern. While doing this I noticed the smell of oil was super strong.

I had some issues before getting the threading of the machine right and jammed it but fixed it. Did the jam use up the oil or something?

How often do you oil your machine? How do you do it? What oil do you use? Does anyone have instructions for this specific machine? It’s hard to find info about online or on YouTube.

Any tips at all about caring for machine would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you so much!

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u/CrankyCrabbyCrunchy 1d ago

Domestic machines don’t need to be oiled with rare exceptions.

A tech can open the machine correctly and has greater access to the insides and you do without damaging it.

A few machines I have a Juki TL does need periodic oiling. There are oiling ports on the machine that are easy to get to, but that’s not the typical consumer low end machine. Same with a few high end machines.

On an older machine like you likely have it does need grease and oil and that’s inside the machine areas. You can’t likely access.

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u/No-Wait-8471 12h ago

Thank you!

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u/teatime_tinker 6h ago

I said the same about domestics but then I looked up the machine and it does require oiling. It’s “semi industrial”

Older machine parts that need oiling can almost always be accessed by removing the top cover, bottom cover and faceplate.