Singer 111w155 Oil Packing Screw

[Gfei]

Hello all.

I've recently purchased an old singer 111 that needs some TLC and I've run into a question. When i removed the oil packing screw for the arm shaft there was some old crusty wool-ish looking stuff in there, I'm assuming to act as a wick.

I'm not sure what I should replace this with, I don't see any specific reference to it in any of the manuals or parts lists I've gone over. Any advice is appreciated.

By the way, I'm really happy to have found this site. I don't do leather work but the information on vintage machines in here is fantastic.

Thanks

[friquant]

Welcome to the forum!

On my singer 144 I replaced all the wicks I've found with small pieces of polyester felt. I suspect any kind of yarn or absorbent fabric would work. It just needs to hold the oil as a reservoir so the oil can slowly feed the shaft.

[Gfei]

18 minutes ago, friquant said:

Welcome to the forum!

On my singer 144 I replaced all the wicks I've found with small pieces of polyester felt. I suspect any kind of yarn or absorbent fabric would work. It just needs to hold the oil as a reservoir so the oil can slowly feed the shaft.

Thanks for the reply. I kinda figured as much. I've got some time before I need to worry about what to replace it with, I've disassembled the entire upper arm to clean up some rust on the timing belt pulley and feed lift eccentric (that had a broken set screw which was fun to remove).

While it's disassembled I'm gonna give it a new coat of paint, then I'll see how easily it all goes back together.