Hi Thermite and Rasmush,
Thanks for the help offered.
@ Thermite; this is the cheapest source so far. I've looked at Tony's and he is charging 85 Pond and as far as I know., Prvomajska is charging over €100.
eve a few French sites with a lot of manuals didn't have anything.
that's why I started this Thread, to find out of someone could help me.
I share the pain. It seemed to be grand that the Burke #4 had been sold to the US Army, as they insist on documentation. I should know. I once WROTE some of it (Northrop-Page and not-only). Former East-bloc manual might exist? Translation ain't hard when it is mostly numbers and engineering-driven / Standard Units data.
Downsides is it can be borderline useless when it says things such as "use any good grade of oil" and "use any good grade of grease".
BFD. A #4 owns two spindle bearings, it's tiny knee, an excuse for an ass, and not even a hat!
Fast-forward to the Rube-Goldberg-was-lazy U.S Machine Tool -> U.S. Burke -> Houdaille/Powermatic "Quartet" combo mill. NICE, if one could at least ascertain which Alemite-Zerks expected a "good grade of.." and even know WHICH of oil or grease. No Joy!
Long and short of it was I had to eventually go and see what OTHER mills with comparable ways and turret ring, and, and... that DID have manuals used. Then figure if the need is the same, the same lube should work on the Quartet, too.
The rest - and I suspect this will be your case as well - one simply does a sort of "reverse engineering" as to correcting wear, finding belts and bearings. A weird vertical pillow-block, for the Quartet the more annoying one, especially as they got it wrong as to needing to resist axial thrust. That needs an alternative, and it is requiring surgery to make space to fit it.
You have a "decent mill". It is more conventional than weird. You've been down this road before. I'm confident you'll sort it, even if you never lay eyes on a manual and simply write yourself some notes.
Among Herr Pelz' earliest lessons, mid 'teen of my years:
"Anything one good man can build, another good man can improve on."
Slotter, aye. Easily stowed, so they need not eat much between "missions".
If I can get around to sorting the gawdawfull HEAVY K&T slotter a prior owner adapted to the weird Quartet, I can even reclaim the floorspace the shaper now "rents".
Small comfort, but if this s**t was
too easy? It would be no fun at all ...and even monkeys could not be bothered!