Broadly speaking, there's three different types of sewing machines when it comes to lubrication. There's the fully automatic machines, which sit in an oil pan and pump sewing machine oil all throughout the mechanism as they're used. There's the semi-automatic, which have an oil reservoir but require manual oiling at some spots. Then there's the manually lubricated machines, like this here Consew 18.
Manually lubricated machines, lacking a fully sealed oil pan, generally require a drip pan beneath them to keep them from dripping excess oil all over your knees, and when I picked up this machine it had, unfortunately, become separated from its original drip pan, which necessitated me locating a new one.
The original part number for this oil pan in Consew's catalogue is 6090, but that part is obsolete and no longer produced. Luckily the 6054 oil pan is still in production and is, as far as I can tell, basically identical.
Really, the only thing it needs to have is a cut out on the left so you can reach in and change the bobbin, plus a hole at the back right that lines up with the knee lift lever.
And this one does appear to line up.
So it should do the job perfectly.
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