Sew together, clean, oil, enjoy!

Part of sewing is taking good care of your most important sewing tool – your sewing machine. About two weeks ago, I showed you how to make clean your machine in a mail on the topic of "wellness for your sewing car". Today, I am writing most how, how often and where to oil your machine and what oil to utilise.
Mastering the sewing techniques is important for a successful result, just proper maintenance of your sewing machine also plays a role. If you take care of your machine regularly, you will enjoy information technology for a long time, and information technology volition be easier for you to create beautiful pieces.

My tips chronicle mainly to the BERNINA hook, which is used in our newer machines. Only don't worry, the models with CB or rotary claw are too included!

How practise I oil my sewing car?

Before oiling, the car must outset be cleaned. I showed you how to do this and what you need to picket out for in my concluding web log mail service. If y'all haven't seen the mail service notwithstanding, you tin find information technology here: Cleaning your sewing car – to make sewing even more fun!

Outset, the bobbin case and bobbin are removed (on the viii Serial, but the bobbin).

Both the BERNINA hook and the CB hook tin be removed. On machines with a rotary hook and on the viii Series, this can only be done past an authorized dealer, simply that doesn't hateful that you tin't make clean and oil them.

There are videos for virtually every model, showing step by pace how to make clean and oil them. On some models, you lot can even come across how to oil them direct in the machine tutorial (for example, on the B 790 Plus). Go to "Setup", "Motorcar settings", "Maintenance/Update", "Lubricating the machine".

The videos show that the machine should exist switched off for condom reasons. For my part, I merely unplug the cable of the foot control then that I don't accidentally footstep on it while I'm working in the hook expanse. Some models have a light in the hook area that can only be switched on if the machine is not asunder from the power, so y'all tin come across what you lot're doing even at night! 🙂

How often should I oil my sewing car?

This is a question for which there is no concrete answer.

Various factors play a role hither: what do you sew, how long have you been sewing, exercise you embroider and are you constantly at your auto? Information technology is important that yous oil your machine regularly and non but when the machine prompts you to exercise so. In that location have probably been times when you lot have idea that your machine sounds "odd". It just wasn't purring as nicely anymore. This ways that it'southward time for some maintenance!

Yous can exercise this both afterward a project and earlier starting a project. If you are working on a projection for a very long time, y'all tin also oil your automobile during that fourth dimension.

Where should I oil my sewing machine?

That depends on the hook.

Important information nearly the BERNINA hook (new 4, five and vii Serial machines)

Although the holes underneath the run up plate look tempting, please exercise not put oil downward these holes.

Admittedly, on the first generations of the 7 Serial (B 710/750/780), it was intended that this "oil reservoir" should be filled. Still, many tests carried out by the visitor showed that filling this reservoir can lead to contamination during sewing and embroidery. The oil reservoir is connected to the hook past a small aqueduct. Lint and dust collect in this channel. If the tank was filled after using the sewing machine and then the machine was put away, the oil could warm upwards and become runny when the machine was restarted subsequently some time (when the motorcar was at "operating temperature"). Information technology became contaminated with lint and ran into the claw surface area, where it soiled the lower thread.

That is why the oil reservoir was eliminated on new machines this year.

And then where should oil be practical now? Equally already mentioned, the BERNINA claw tin can exist removed. Put a drop of oil (no more and no less) into the claw race and i drop each into the felts of the removed hook.

Our video shows yous how to do this:

In that location is also a video on how to oil the CB hook:

This is how to oil the rotary hook:

…and this is how to oil the eight Series:

What oil should I use?

Be sure to utilize the original oil supplied by BERNINA! It is a high-quality resin-free and acid-free oil with the correct consistency.

I hope none of you have ever tried to use cooking oil. Don't even think nearly it! Cooking oil does more than harm than practiced because it congeals into a thick, gluey mass. Of form, the hook can then no longer run smoothly and well.

If you finish the oil that came with your sewing machine, buy a new one from your BERNINA dealer. Delight do not buy any machine oil online. Your car will thank you.

Did you previously have a automobile with a CB hook and now use a newer machine with the BERNINA hook? Or practice you accept an overlocker as well as a sewing machine? In this example, please be very strict and do not use the oil for one machine on the other. The oils are different.

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What should I do after oiling my machine?

I always run up a spare piece of fabric after oiling. Sometimes a bit too much oil can accidentally find its mode into the car. The backlog oil is absorbed by sewing. If you lot don't have whatsoever scraps of material on hand, you tin also remove the needle and thread and and then actuate the sewing part to distribute the oil. Depending on the model, information technology may exist necessary to switch off the thread indicator.

Replace the hook – and you're ready to go again

Of course, afterward oiling the sewing auto, we have to replace the hook and the bobbin case with the bobbin. In the last blog post almost cleaning, I showed y'all an piece of cake fashion to insert the BERNINA hook. Today I'll show you a 2nd method:

It is of import that the hole in the hook is lined up with the grayness marking on the claw race. It is easiest if this marking is at effectually the 6 o'clock position. If this is not the case, you can hands motility it there by pressing the needle stop button twice (some models).

I concur the claw from the within with my right and left alphabetize fingers, with the hole in the hook facing down. And then I insert the claw, which I tilt slightly downwards, into the hook race. It is attracted magnetically and soon slots into the right place.

The following advice nicely sums up the topic of how to oil your sewing machine: "Just a drop, more frequently!"
I was delighted with all your feedback on the post almost cleaning sewing machines. I hope that you accept read this mail just equally carefully and that information technology helps yous to take adept intendance of your BERNINA. If you lot have any questions, please use the comment function.

Otherwise, I hope that I was able to inspire y'all and that you take the next opportunity to treat your machine to a few drops of oil so that everything runs smoothly again and you lot can enjoy sewing on it for a long fourth dimension to come.

Warmest regards,
Mirjam