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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users