Mark;

On 2013-02-10, at 7:45 AM, Mark Wendt wrote:
> 
> Yah, I'd heard about some of the horror stories where folks had forced
> grease into an oil fitting.  That was why I was concerned for Gene
> when he mentioned his grease gun wouldn't fit the zerk.  A number of
> guys on Practical Machinist had bought machines where the previous
> owner had forced grease into an oil fitting, and left a mess.

Hey, I did this. My small lathe (Emco Compact-8) has grease fittings, and the 
instruction manual says where to grease and/or oil.

My larger British lathe came pre-greased, in the same areas that the Compact-8 
uses grease, so it seemed fairly natural.

Have been (slowly) flushing the grease out of the system; it is well oiled now. 
Only one fitting can not be greased; I think I'll have to take the apron off 
and really see what's happening. (the fitting is right beside the threading 
lever, and it's either a tapped hole for a stop that someone put a fitting on 
by mistake/mischief, or it's blocked. Not a lot of threading done on the lathe)

My oil gun is a "jet" lever grease gun, bottom cut off and plugged; so where 
the spring plunger is is blanked off. To use it I invert the gun, so grease 
goes into the lever mechanism and gets squirted in.

The quick change gearbox leaks oil, so lots of maintenance on the list for this 
lathe; I'd like the gearbox to hold oil, and I'd like to just clean up the 
apron.

John A. Stewart.
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