South bend 9a umd wicks

[Andeo1025]

I bought the felt and wick kit from ilion. In the book they show a horizontal drive headstock and two holes you can insert something into to hold the spindle wicks. On mine those holes lead nowhere near the wicks. They angle up away from the wick holes in the bearings. I'm not quite sure how to hold the wicks down for spindle reassembly. I removed the oilers and I'm thinking that might be an option. Thanks to everyone who has responded to my previous posts.

 

[animal12]

I have not heard of that happening before . Do you have a small mirror that you can put in the spindle bore to see if there is a hole there on the inside ? Did you clean the front of the headstock real good above the oilers ?
animal

 

[johansen]

Someone could have drilled it by hand and was careless. If it is unusable just stick a piece of bailing wire in through the oiler hole.


BTW if you don't know, the reason there is a small wire loop hanging in the V grove in front and back of the spindle bore is to break the surface tension of the oil slung out and captured in the groove. when you pull the spindle if one is missing just make one from a paper clip.

 

[Andeo1025]

I think my problem is that its an under drive headstock. I know the oil wick is longer than the standard wick. I think i can get 2 small screw drivers in the oil holes with the oilers removed and hold the wicks down.

 

[SLK001]

BTW if you don't know, the reason there is a small wire loop hanging in the V grove in front and back of the spindle bore is to break the surface tension of the oil slung out and captured in the groove. when you pull the spindle if one is missing just make one from a paper clip.

They used these clips on the cast iron segmented bearing model only. The bronze bearing doesn't have them.

 

[Andeo1025]

That makes sense. The manual said they didnt all have them.

 

[Andeo1025]

In case anyone else has this problem in the future, the solution is to remove the oilers, push the wicks down as far as they'll go and use 2 pocket flatheads to hold them in place.

 

[chipss]

Just push them well below the bearing surface and immobilise them with some sharp pointy somethings in the small side holes. Stick the spindle back in, pull the pointy things out, oil the pee out of it and you're good to go.

Then you do the bearing clearance test dealio procedure.

 

[Yan Wo]

Just push them well below the bearing surface and immobilise them with some sharp pointy somethings in the small side holes. Stick the spindle back in, pull the pointy things out, oil the pee out of it and you're good to go.

Then you do the bearing clearance test dealio procedure.

PS: If you use toothpicks, like someone did with mine, pull both of them all the way out, don't just break one of them off, like someone did with mine.

 

[animal12]

If you have some time before you install the wicks you could put them in a container with some spindle oil & let them marinate for a couple of days
animal