I saw the video with the duck playing the bongos and it looks so derpy and cute and squishy and I want to have like 50 ducks to quack and hug :c
Recap: Sewing machine tech.
So, a very nice lady just brought her old Necchi in for service-it's leaving black streaks on her projects. Mrs Jon's husband "spruced it up" recently, and that's when the problems started.
So I get the cover off and start to notice greasy fingerprints on everything I touch. Great-graphite grease. Now I'm irritated-graphite grease is the bane of my existence. It isn't particularly good in sewing machines, and the littlest bit spreads like the black plague.
I get the front cover off and go from irritated to nuclear rage. Mr Jon (presumably-I haven't asked yet) sprayed the inside of the head with freaking graphite grease. I didn't know the stuff was sprayable, but that sure looks like what he did. She puts a drop or two of oil on the needle bar and voila, black streaks on her projects. Nothing in the head needs greased, just a few drops of oil here and there.
So far, I've been through three pairs of gloves, countless q-tips, and two toothbrushes trying to get this stuff off, and I haven't even gotten to the head yet. I have a bad feeling I'm going to have to take it apart-which it really doesn't need, mechanically, and will be a colossal PITA with this particular model-just to be able to get in there and clean.
Mr Jon's voodoo doll would be getting a graphite grease enema about now if I had one. I'm so glad it's Friday!
