Boy it feels good to ask an operational question, rather than a rebuild question, after 2 1/2 years.
I replaced all the Bijur metering fittings in the apron/saddle with identical new old stock items off Ebay. The fitting to the front V way was a medium volume one and the other ones: back way, cross slide ways, cross slide dial, were small volume. I gleaned that information from old Bijur documentation I came across on the computer.
Now that I am using the lathe, I have oil everywhere. Oil drips from the front and back ways from the way oilers, I have oil dripping down both sides of the cross slide from its oiler, and I have oil dripping on the floor coming from the bottom of the cross slide dial, as well as oil running down the front of the apron from between the dial mounting pad and the dial flange, and I did make little fiber gasket for the passage from the mounting pad to the dial flange.
Is all this normal?
I replaced all the Bijur metering fittings in the apron/saddle with identical new old stock items off Ebay. The fitting to the front V way was a medium volume one and the other ones: back way, cross slide ways, cross slide dial, were small volume. I gleaned that information from old Bijur documentation I came across on the computer.
Now that I am using the lathe, I have oil everywhere. Oil drips from the front and back ways from the way oilers, I have oil dripping down both sides of the cross slide from its oiler, and I have oil dripping on the floor coming from the bottom of the cross slide dial, as well as oil running down the front of the apron from between the dial mounting pad and the dial flange, and I did make little fiber gasket for the passage from the mounting pad to the dial flange.
Is all this normal?