What do you guys use to get oil in Chinese machinery ball oilers?

[Jim Dobson]

A pice of 3/16 vacum line or gas line over the tip of your favoret oil can will seal and alow the oil to flow in.

OK...that's something else to try.

Thanks

 

[Tozguy]

Thanks for the help kd. Will try to take a photo of the bottle I use. It was originally a saline nasal spray bottle.

There may also be some potential to make an oiler from a bottle of eyeglasses cleaner. It all depends on the shape of the nozzle.

 

[Tozguy]

It holds around 1.5 fl. oz.



Nozzle on eyeglasses cleaning fluid bottle.

 

[Jim Dobson]

Thanks for the photos Toz.

 

[Bill Gruby]

My oiler was made in Italy. It is a Brevettato. It belonged to my father now me. It is over 40 years old and has never failed. I made the tip to fit the Ball oilers on my Jet 9X20.

"Billy G"

 

[Jim Dobson]

Thanks for the close up of the tip you made Bill.

 

[Bill Gruby]

Thank you Jim. If you look close at the very tip you will see a radius. That radius stops the tip from bottoming out the ball.

"Billy G"

 

[darkzero]

He's a close up of how my high pressure oilers fit my ball oilers. The old Eagle 66 oilers fit my ball oilers perfect also.





I use similar bottles but with Luer Lock tips so I can use different size needles according to the fluid viscosity. But I don't use them to try oil the ball oilers. I use them for different cutting fluids (as well as for flux, solvents, etc.), I have a bunch of them in 3 sizes. I do brush on oil but usually only when I'm machining longer stock on the lathe or flats on the mill. Otherwise I mostly use these to apply my cutting oils, gives me pinpoint accuracy & less waste from unnecessary over application from a brush.

I made a holder that's mounted to my carriage where my flood coolant nozzle goes & I also made an extra one with a mag base to prevent knocking over the bottles with the very fine tips.

 

[darkzero]

...really sick of my leaky Golden Rod oiler... applied clear silicone in all the areas I suspect leakage from

So I gave it a few pumps last night, been sitting there overnight & all day today....no more leaking! Not a drop down the side of the can or on the handle. I'm happy cause I really liked using this one for my mill.

:joy:

 

[Tozguy]

Jim, good question! Thanks to everyone who is contributing. It is very interesting to see the different approaches to finding an ideal solution to an old problem.