On Jul 8, 2009, at 1:40 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Peter Cauchy wrote: >> Thanks for the replies, >> >> Part of the issue is I do not have the mill completely square, and it >> was cutting without stuttering, but I was tightening the >> tolerances and >> started losing steps due to friction. > > That is often something that can be helped with the right lube, and > its been > recommended to use a Mobil product called Vectron (IIRC) for that. > Unforch it > only comes in 5 gallon pails, which would be several of my > remaining lifetimes > worth, so I have not obtained any of it, yet.
Vactra No. 2 which is the right grade for small to medium machine tools is available from MSC in one gal containers. # 60002151 for about $20. Indeed a gallon will last a long time. I just finished my first 5 gal pail and that took 10 years or so. HTH Dave <snip> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
