Oil Filled Rotary Tables

[darkzero]

I have the Grizzly "Yuasa style" 8'\" and it also needed to be filled with oil before use. It was a pain trying to get the oil to run into the oil fill port. It kept air locking.

I looked at the manual for the Grizzly Yuasa style RTs & it does not say anything about being oil filled. Just has the typical ball oilers like my Vertex. But for the other style like Phase II sells, Grizzly does describe it as "oil immersed gears".

I just looked at Yuasa's manual & it does not say anything about be oil filled either. I'm thinking mine is not oil filled & I'll just continue using it. Or is it certain sizes & larger?


This is the one I have.




And this is the type Grizzly lists as oil filled. http://www.grizzly.com/products/8-Horizontal-Vertical-Rotary-Table/G9292

 

[Rbeckett]

I took my NIB 6 inch out of the box and all it has is GITS oilers, no sight glass or fill plug either. My manual does not even mention what oil to put in the GITS, so I plan on just using way oil in my hand pump oiler and calling it good.

Bob

 

[Rbeckett]

XALKY,
That RT is for fixing up dead people on the embalming table, can't think of anything big enough to even use a 20" RT on besides that 60 footer that was shown a while back maybe...

Bob

 

[xalky]

XALKY,
That RT is for fixing up dead people on the embalming table, can't think of anything big enough to even use a 20" RT on besides that 60 footer that was shown a while back maybe...

Bob

One thing's for sure, there's plenty of room on it to clamp parts down. It has also come in real handy to make a large radius cut. I was gonna sell it, but decided to keep it. I bought a hydraulic lift table specifically for that rotary table, just so I can get it on the mill fairly easily. The 20"rotary table and the hydraulic lift table , combined, cost me less than my 6" New grizzly rotary table did.

 

[darkzero]

$50 for a 20" is one heck of a deal, or for any nice RT. I got an unbelievable deal on mine too & I'm still not sure why. I called to order the brand new 8" Vertex RT. When I tried to give my credit card number I was refused, I said "I can't let you send it to me for free", then he said "well I can't let you pay for it". I lost & had to accept it for free! I'm forever thankful!

 

[Sandia]

I looked at the manual for the Grizzly Yuasa style RTs & it does not say anything about being oil filled. Just has the typical ball oilers like my Vertex. But for the other style like Phase II sells, Grizzly does describe it as "oil immersed gears".

I just looked at Yuasa's manual & it does not say anything about be oil filled either. I'm thinking mine is not oil filled & I'll just continue using it. Or is it certain sizes & larger?


This is the one I have.




And this is the type Grizzly lists as oil filled. http://www.grizzly.com/products/8-Horizontal-Vertical-Rotary-Table/G9292

The picture at the bottom is exactly the same as mine.

 

[jim18655]

I looked at the manual for the Grizzly Yuasa style RTs & it does not say anything about being oil filled. Just has the typical ball oilers like my Vertex. But for the other style like Phase II sells, Grizzly does describe it as "oil immersed gears".

I just looked at Yuasa's manual & it does not say anything about be oil filled either. I'm thinking mine is not oil filled & I'll just continue using it. Or is it certain sizes & larger?


This is the one I have.




And this is the type Grizzly lists as oil filled. http://www.grizzly.com/products/8-Horizontal-Vertical-Rotary-Table/G9292

Look at the picture on the manual and read section 5 of the manual. G9298.


20
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f necessary, add a
high-quality 80W–90W gear oil until the oil level
reaches half-way in the site glass.

 

[darkzero]

Look at the picture on the manual and read section 5 of the manual. G9298.


20
).
i
f necessary, add a
high-quality 80W–90W gear oil until the oil level
reaches half-way in the site glass.

Yup, no oil cup filler or sight glass like that on mine. I guess the 8" Vertex is a Yuasa copy without the oil res. :rofl: I had a 6" Vertex, it didn't have them either.

 

[Video_man]

I also have a PhaseII 8 inch, and having had it apart (long sad story) it appears to me that (1) there are no oil seals except on the two clamps underneath that retain the table, there being none around the edge of the table at all and (2) it really doesn't take much oil at all to lube the sump, which is a fairly small area around the worm. I think (although there is a sight glass to guide) that over-oiling is probably a large part of the leakage problem. And vertical use seems to worsen the problem, as well.