MOTOR SERIES #3: Servicing Common Motor Styles (1950s-1970s) Bearing & Brush Maintenance

BUY ME A COFFEE 👉 ☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/vintagesewin... Each motor series video attempts to highlight various motors you might come across in vintage machines and how to approach reconditioning maintenance. With this video, I showcase a motor design that is quite commonly found in machines ranging from 1950's models thru 1970's and sometimes beyond. Although there mounting brackets and power ratings vary, these motors have access screws for the motor brushes as well as SPECIFIC lubrication points for the bearings. NOTE: Always unplug any machine before working on them whether its the motor or any other area of the machine. The motor type seen in this video was used by many sewing machine brands and produced by a variety of motor producers. The key features of this motor design allow access to brushes and bearing lube points. Unlike some earlier sewing motor designs such as some of the Rotary machine cylinder shaped motors which used grease for bearing lubrication (some later versions used oil), this motor uses sewing machine oil as its bearing lubricant. Its VERY important to note that these take ONE DROP of sewing machine oil in ONE SPECIFIC lubrication point. Putting lubricant in any other part of the motor can ruin the motor. These motors are not especially difficult to service, but they are very specific in what they require and where!! This motor came on one the Hybrid Vintage machines I am highlighting (late 1970's Janome Free Arm).