Mats Andersen
Plastic
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- Jan 31, 2016
Hi!
I have got my hands on a fairly old type shaper of the Brand Klopp. It is very steardily built and seems like a very good machine. It is worn and I intend to restore it.
From what I have found out it is possibly a model 375. 1930's??
There is a question I have.
It seems to be have been lubed with grease for many years and it certainly did not do any good for the ways over the years. There is lots of scarred surfaces where the scraped surfaces used to be.
Based on my experience, way oil would be a much more effcient way (less friction, better surface disctribution and less mess ) to lube these ways.
So my questions is, did they use grease in the 30æs because the way oils of the day was not capable?
I do intend, after rescraping it to use way oil, but I was hoping someone could shed light on this grease lubrication concept?
I have attached a photo of the oil channels in the ways. How would you get grease to distribute properly in these? Most grease is kind of high friction, sticky and work best for slow moving parts in my experience
I hope someone out there have some info on this machine:-)
Best regards
Mats Andersen
[email protected]
I have got my hands on a fairly old type shaper of the Brand Klopp. It is very steardily built and seems like a very good machine. It is worn and I intend to restore it.
From what I have found out it is possibly a model 375. 1930's??
There is a question I have.
It seems to be have been lubed with grease for many years and it certainly did not do any good for the ways over the years. There is lots of scarred surfaces where the scraped surfaces used to be.
Based on my experience, way oil would be a much more effcient way (less friction, better surface disctribution and less mess ) to lube these ways.
So my questions is, did they use grease in the 30æs because the way oils of the day was not capable?
I do intend, after rescraping it to use way oil, but I was hoping someone could shed light on this grease lubrication concept?
I have attached a photo of the oil channels in the ways. How would you get grease to distribute properly in these? Most grease is kind of high friction, sticky and work best for slow moving parts in my experience
I hope someone out there have some info on this machine:-)
Best regards
Mats Andersen
[email protected]