torinwalker
Aluminum
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2010
- Location
- Oakville, Ontario
Gentlemen,
On my Brown and Sharpe #13 Universal and Tool Grinder (mfg 1943), I have this oil cup that I can't quite figure out how to lubricate:
I've tried turning the machine on its side, and tilting it 45 degrees with one hand whilst I squirt oil into the cup with the other.
I don't have an oiler whose tip fits down into the oil cup to create a seal against the interior of the cup (thus using pressure rather than gravity to apply oil.) I'm not sure if sealing against an oil cup is a real thing anyway.
My only other hypothesis is that this was at one time a Zerk fitting, or a right-angled oil cup that was replaced with a straight oil cup. Zerks were patented in 1929, so the timing of availability may be too close for this to have been a Zerk fitting.
Any thoughts?
Torin...
On my Brown and Sharpe #13 Universal and Tool Grinder (mfg 1943), I have this oil cup that I can't quite figure out how to lubricate:
I've tried turning the machine on its side, and tilting it 45 degrees with one hand whilst I squirt oil into the cup with the other.
I don't have an oiler whose tip fits down into the oil cup to create a seal against the interior of the cup (thus using pressure rather than gravity to apply oil.) I'm not sure if sealing against an oil cup is a real thing anyway.
My only other hypothesis is that this was at one time a Zerk fitting, or a right-angled oil cup that was replaced with a straight oil cup. Zerks were patented in 1929, so the timing of availability may be too close for this to have been a Zerk fitting.
Any thoughts?
Torin...