wrustle
Titanium
- Joined
- Jun 8, 2006
- Location
- Massachusetts
Does anyone know what could be the cause of the chuck leaking? It ran fine yesterday, all day. This morning I started up my lathe, opened the chuck and noticed oil squirting out from it, and again when closing the chuck. Also saw it was dripping quite a bit from underneath the chuck. Upon closer inspection I noticed a screw missing in the middle of the chuck where oil was squirting out. It must have loosened up and fell out sometime yesterday when it was running because I never noticed it before.
You can see in the picture the screw in the eleven o'clock position is missing and that's where I saw the oil squirting out from.
With all the coolant and chips in the machine yesterday it would have been very difficult to ever notice anything wrong. It's a pretty good leak though, my hydraulic tank sight gauge is below the bottom most line so it leaked out VERY quickly, because the machine was just filled with fluids last weekend. Could the missing screw be the cause of the leak....or is it something more dreadful?!?! I don't even know where to begin taking this thing apart either so if I must, please feel free to offer direction.
Happy Holidays,
Russ
You can see in the picture the screw in the eleven o'clock position is missing and that's where I saw the oil squirting out from.
With all the coolant and chips in the machine yesterday it would have been very difficult to ever notice anything wrong. It's a pretty good leak though, my hydraulic tank sight gauge is below the bottom most line so it leaked out VERY quickly, because the machine was just filled with fluids last weekend. Could the missing screw be the cause of the leak....or is it something more dreadful?!?! I don't even know where to begin taking this thing apart either so if I must, please feel free to offer direction.
Happy Holidays,
Russ