Zorba
"The Veiled Male"
To add to Khanjar's post about oil - ALL modern machine manuals, and many vintage machine manuals - have inadequate oiling instructions. My '76 White 690 has an entire section with oil cups and other bearing surfaces that the manual doesn't mention at all! If it moves, turns, or has an oil cup - oil it! You can't over oil a SM - although oil can drip out of it, including on your fabric! Use ONLY SM oil, NOTHING else!
Khanjar - did you perchance pull the crank out of your 128? I'm tearing down an 1891 VS2 (the first version of the 27, a direct ancestor of the 128) for restoration and "hot rodding", and would like to get the crank out. I've read that its pretty hard...
Khanjar - did you perchance pull the crank out of your 128? I'm tearing down an 1891 VS2 (the first version of the 27, a direct ancestor of the 128) for restoration and "hot rodding", and would like to get the crank out. I've read that its pretty hard...