Got a Pearson #6!!!! wee hooo!!!

[Constabulary]

The "wrong" oil will not kill this machine...

I use 10w40 oil and this is the chain spray. I also use the chain spray on the the inside cam on my 29K71 and thread lever cam on 45D91 and on gears that usually run in grease filled gear boxes (like Singer 133K / 132K) . It´s just what I use not what the manufacturers recommend. I´m no lubricant scientist and i´m not smarter then the manufacturers - this is just what works for me.

[gordond]

Congrats on your purchase!

I too was shy of a wax pot ... Figured i wasn't going to find one so welded one up. No reference at the time so guessed and devised a thread track (vee bearings held in a UMPTE cartridge... Ok not classic at all but it works)..

this was my "first" #6 machine of which many more have followed.

Edited September 24, 2018 by gordond

[gordond]

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Edited September 24, 2018 by gordond

[plinkercases]

Beautifle!

[Big Sioux Saddlery]

17 hours ago, plinkercases said:

Do you use the STP additive called "Oil Treatment" or the " 4-cylinder Oil Treatment"?

Thank for all the help fellas,

Murray

I'll have to check on that.  I'm going to say it's probably just Oil Treatment. 

 

6 hours ago, gordond said:

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That is SWEEEET!!!

[dikman]

There are other brands of oil treatment additives besides STP, all do pretty much the same thing. Just mix with some engine oil and you end up with a lube that sticks to things! Chain spray - there are lots made for motorcycle chains (and bicycle chains) and all are designed to stick at high speed. Some are quite thick when sprayed on, and most are messy! Best idea is to spray a bit into a container and use a swab or brush to apply it to the machine. Some bikers use DuPont teflon spray on their chains and swear by it as it dries to a non-sticky coating and works well.

With a machine like this you're unlikely to go wrong with any of the modern oils/greases/lubes now available, just find something that works for you. As Constabulary said, you're not likely to kill it.

[DonInReno]

Very nice machine - a lot of history there!

If anyone hasn’t walked through a well stocked motorcycle shop, there are now synthetic lubes of all kinds available there from thick and sticky to thin and runny - even packaged in rather small quantities.   Reading a few packages it appears each is a miracle cure for something....

[ScoobyNewbie]

So, wait, wax pot? That wasn’t a typo? You can make a pot to wax your thread going into your machines? I thought that waxed thread in a machine is a no no. Doesn’t it gunk your needle and the winding apparatus up?

[gordond]

10 minutes ago, ScoobyNewbie said:

So, wait, wax pot? That wasn’t a typo? You can make a pot to wax your thread going into your machines? I thought that waxed thread in a machine is a no no. Doesn’t it gunk your needle and the winding apparatus up?

These machines were originally fitted with an elaborate heating system -water baths to the wax pot below the needle - the thread and needle were quite warm

[ScoobyNewbie]

Oh, so it cools the needle and thread, not waxes it. Jeeze, if I get into more machines, I’d better research the heck out of them before.

i know you’re excited about your new machine, but why specifically? Does it give an advantage over your other machines? And if so why? What was it for originally?