Blazemaster
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- Oct 13, 2009
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- Olympia, Wa
I have been working on my K&T 2k plain in my offtime for months now. I have been cleaning/painting the knee, I have it up on a bench. I am also replacing bearings, seals and pretty much anything else I come across. I have been cleaning out the oil passages that are piped with copper tubing, everything I have come across so far has been plugged solid. I have been getting intimate with my parts manual, and the inside of this thing.
There has always been this pipe cleaner (wicking) material sticking out of the inside, supposedly for catching some of the oil when its flowing. There are 3. I never could tell where it went, but I was working on other stuff so I never gave it a thought. Today I was poking around waiting for primer to dry, and I started poking around in a hole, to clean it out. i found some of the pipe cleaner material in the hole. After poking around a bit more it looks like it may connect with the passage to the original 3 pipe cleaners. After looking a bit more I discovered where I think the other 2 go. They lubricate the sliding shafts for the rear controls.
This all brings me to the reason for this thread. Everything so far on the K&T has been made to be serviced. It bolts or presses together. These pipe cleaners look as though they were put in place, and a plug screwed or pressed in, then cut off flush. In order to service and replace them, it looks like I would have to drill out the plugs. Now I don't really have a problem with this, as I would probably just put a set screw in so I could deal with it again if I needed to, I just don't want to go drilling holes in the knee of my mill unless this is what I am supposed to do.
Anybody had to do this on their machine?
Here are the pipe cleaners inside the knee(coming out of the left wall)
Here you can see the pipe cleaners in the background, and the plug I am speaking about in front
Here you can see the plug on the right, and the hole I was digging in on the lower left. They are in line with each other
Here are the other 2 plugs on top. The top screw of the three is also a plug
Here you can barely see the holes where the oil would flow to the shafts
There has always been this pipe cleaner (wicking) material sticking out of the inside, supposedly for catching some of the oil when its flowing. There are 3. I never could tell where it went, but I was working on other stuff so I never gave it a thought. Today I was poking around waiting for primer to dry, and I started poking around in a hole, to clean it out. i found some of the pipe cleaner material in the hole. After poking around a bit more it looks like it may connect with the passage to the original 3 pipe cleaners. After looking a bit more I discovered where I think the other 2 go. They lubricate the sliding shafts for the rear controls.
This all brings me to the reason for this thread. Everything so far on the K&T has been made to be serviced. It bolts or presses together. These pipe cleaners look as though they were put in place, and a plug screwed or pressed in, then cut off flush. In order to service and replace them, it looks like I would have to drill out the plugs. Now I don't really have a problem with this, as I would probably just put a set screw in so I could deal with it again if I needed to, I just don't want to go drilling holes in the knee of my mill unless this is what I am supposed to do.
Anybody had to do this on their machine?
Here are the pipe cleaners inside the knee(coming out of the left wall)
Here you can see the pipe cleaners in the background, and the plug I am speaking about in front
Here you can see the plug on the right, and the hole I was digging in on the lower left. They are in line with each other
Here are the other 2 plugs on top. The top screw of the three is also a plug
Here you can barely see the holes where the oil would flow to the shafts