Dreamt of Better Homes and Gardens

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Yesterday I took more things off the hand wheel assembly and thoroughly cleaned them. I got into the rearmost back panel and cleaned what I could reach. Around the main drive shaft I found what is either decades of congealed oil and dust, or old grease. It’s too dark in there to tell, and too cramped to really get it all out, especially from the surfaces behind the shaft. If it’s grease I should replace it with fresh. It looks like it should be possible to remove another part from the exterior and at least expose the bearing, but P and I couldn’t figure out how. There is a pin maybe? Or it might be press fit, which I’m not prepared to deal with. I spent the rest of the day on the head of the machine, removing and cleaning the presser foot lever assembly, the little retaining finger that holds in the top tension plate, and the takeup lever.

I finished Anthropocene Reviewed and went back to mixed podcasts. I’ll be needing a book next, something new.

Meals were all fine, crossword, DS9, then bedtime snack went haywire and I spent a few hours nursing nausea and panic attacks. Fine now.