Wax Clean Up ?

[catskin]

Lots of you folks clean up old machines ,and I bought one recently that has a lot of old wax stuck/ dried on it, I am wondering what you use to soften / dissolve it to clean it off. Gasoline might work but it is rather flammable. It sews the way it is but I would like to clean up the stuff that is around the rollers that the thread runs on and whatever I can get at without tearing it all down.

[dirtclod]

Diesel fuel works put it on with a brush.

[Constabulary]

for deep seated stuff I use paint thinner and until now it did not hurt the paint finish of any of the old machines.

Flammable yes but as long as you have no open flames around it will not inflame your machine.

[catskin]

Thanks will try those. I think there are places that it has built up enough to affect the thread control and make it not pull up the top thread.