Curiouser and curiouser

Well, so far I have found cinnamon lollies and dried cranberries and the chopsticks/hairsticks and a bag full of books from the lifeline bookfair and bandaids in the box with all the results from the iron ore smelt?!
But there is no sign of a little bottle of Singer sewing machine oil.
Where would you put a little bottle of oil which you don't trust the lid on and so needs to stay upright, when moving interstate?
It is one of those things where I know exactly where it lived in Canberra - open shelf, tall cabinet in the dining room, but can't remember if I have seen it here. If we were sensible it will be mummified in a large ball of plastic bags and in with the kipple from that same shelf, but packing seldom brings out the most sensible.
I have the nasty suspicion it may be in the car, in which case it is parked at Z's work waiting for him to get back from up north... but that is a very vague suspicion.
Maybe if I tidy more it will jump out and ambush me when I am not looking.

( Edit )

Back to aaaarrrrrgggghhhh again

So, having the appropriate oil, sat down and attacked the machine.
Opened up everything, delinted everything (including underneath), oiled in the appropriate places.
Reassembled with new needle, new thread (same in top and bottom).
Behaved worse.
So, played with bottom tension.
Huge loops on the base no matter what I did.
Started from basics and disassembled the top thread tensioner and reset from the begining. Redid the bottom thread tension to match.
~2 hours later, I have it back to okish but the thread tension changes and slips along the length of a 10cm test patch.
Arsery.
Z is home. I quit with the machine now.