William E Williams
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2005
- Location
- South Western PA
Hi All,
I'm assembling my "new to me" vert milling machine right now & I have a question. I scraped a ton of old grease and blew frozen wads from the passages. After all this I am wanting not to use grease on it and was thinking about oil. Any thoughts on how to?
I was thinking -
1) Just do oil cups as I hate lots of lines running everywhere, I want it not to be a tripping or catch hazard in my small shop.
2) Just leave the pasages bare and fill the cup with 30 wt SB oil.
3) Or, use F1 felt to line the pasages, with them rubbing the bearings from just the pinpont end sticking out slifgtly.
4) Last - modify knee & gib to hold felt horizioaly to wipe the full width of the bearing.
Ted
I'm assembling my "new to me" vert milling machine right now & I have a question. I scraped a ton of old grease and blew frozen wads from the passages. After all this I am wanting not to use grease on it and was thinking about oil. Any thoughts on how to?
I was thinking -
1) Just do oil cups as I hate lots of lines running everywhere, I want it not to be a tripping or catch hazard in my small shop.
2) Just leave the pasages bare and fill the cup with 30 wt SB oil.
3) Or, use F1 felt to line the pasages, with them rubbing the bearings from just the pinpont end sticking out slifgtly.
4) Last - modify knee & gib to hold felt horizioaly to wipe the full width of the bearing.
Ted