jseals
Plastic
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2009
- Location
- middle Tennessee, USA
To give credit to whoever made the first tool to do this.....so be it.
I'm posting this because there were so many responses to removing oil sight glasses on 10EE's. This is an ugly tool, but it works. I made this little tool with available scrap and it worked great. I also had to install a DRO for my Bridgeport, and it had "Bolt Hole" computation on it.
The hard part was the accurate measurement of the holes. My measurement came out to 1.416" diameter. I drilled and tapped them for 10-24 screws. Then I removed as much metal as I could from the part. Inserting screws to the proper depth and tapping the tool in both directions worked. I did tap the edge of the retainer plate with a rubber hammer before it would loosen.
The beauty of this is if the next sight glass doesn't work right with the tool just turn the tool over and screw the screws in from the other side. It worked for all three sight glasses.
John
I'm posting this because there were so many responses to removing oil sight glasses on 10EE's. This is an ugly tool, but it works. I made this little tool with available scrap and it worked great. I also had to install a DRO for my Bridgeport, and it had "Bolt Hole" computation on it.
The hard part was the accurate measurement of the holes. My measurement came out to 1.416" diameter. I drilled and tapped them for 10-24 screws. Then I removed as much metal as I could from the part. Inserting screws to the proper depth and tapping the tool in both directions worked. I did tap the edge of the retainer plate with a rubber hammer before it would loosen.
The beauty of this is if the next sight glass doesn't work right with the tool just turn the tool over and screw the screws in from the other side. It worked for all three sight glasses.
John