After a six month wait the PM-1236T Lathe arrived. Other than a couple of paint scrapes and gouges it looks pretty good. I spent a couple of hours uncrating and cleaning it. It is still pretty hot in the garage, but the humidity is getting more tolerable.
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New PM-1236T Lathe has arrived
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You have an open gear box. It is a total loss system. Every time you go to use the lathe squirt some oil in there. It will drip down on the change gears and out the bottom onto your pan. I have a little tray under mine to help catch the oil.
Yep, what NCjeeper said. I took the cover off of mine to be sure. Just inside the oil port there is a tray with holes in it allowing the oil to drip down in the gears. There is a piece of some kind of mesh laying in the tray to moderate the rate of drip, but it doesn't do much.
I will take the cover off tomorrow to see it and to see if I can oil it with my regular oil squirt cans.
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I use a regular squirt can, three pumps. I also have a drip pan that I made to catch the oil.
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This might provide more clarity on what’s under the hood and alternative solutions to improve the Norton gearbox oiling.
PM-1236T review
One thing worth experimenting with on your 3 jaw (any chuck other than 4 jaw) is try it in all the D1-4 positions. Test runout and then rotate 120 degrees to next position on pins and test again. Every chuck I've tried, there is 1 sweet spot. My 3 jaw that came with PM-1340GT is right at...
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Great info. Thanks David!This might provide more clarity on what’s under the hood and alternative solutions to improve the Norton gearbox oiling.
PM-1236T review
One thing worth experimenting with on your 3 jaw (any chuck other than 4 jaw) is try it in all the D1-4 positions. Test runout and then rotate 120 degrees to next position on pins and test again. Every chuck I've tried, there is 1 sweet spot. My 3 jaw that came with PM-1340GT is right at...