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Here's my newbee question of the day.

My lathe seems to have more oiling holes than a gopher village. Some are just holes and some have little cap dealies. (SB9" A)

I purchased specialized oils for ways, spindle and other parts.

My question is, how do I know which oil goes in which hole?

Also, why do some holes have port covers and others are simply holes?

It would be cool if someone would produce a colorful and clear chart showing all the holes and also places to oil where there are NO holes. I'd hate to miss a spot.

Also, I'm unsure how much oil to put in and on.

Guess there's a lot of questions in there; perhaps I went over my 1 question limit :-)

DaveV
 
great idea!

If it is OK with you all, I'm going to take about 12 photos of said lathe and number each hole using photoshop and post here, with numbers and pictures that you all can help me match up.

I can hear groans from old timers :-)
 
Will this help

Some machines only have simple drilled hole. With a quick glance one would say that hole is for this.
Such as the ends of a feed shaft. Try to have Xray vision lets say this (oil) hole is right inline with the
1/2 nut so 1 and 1 equils thats what its for. As for oils, I have never had problems with whatevers on
the shelf, but I have come upon in local hardware store chain oil. Chain oil is not related to WD or any
penatrates. I spray ways, gear trains even use it while turning. My big GK which was mfg. in 1918
no doubt has babbit bearing (I not sure never apart) anyways years ago I gave it a good dose of that
Slick 50 stuff that suppose to fill scratches bearing voids whatever. I just figure it works in a babbited
Model T Ford so why not a lathe. Kind of like that frying pan stuff it seems more sliprey.
My feelings are this as far as oil. One and only new thing i bought ever was a 1975 Ford F250.
and in print if I DID NOT use Ford oil i think Ford 300 or Rotundra my warrantee is void. South Bend oil
for there products. After I grew up I concluded Ford or South Bend does not make their oil. Maybe
Mobile Exon who knows in the thirtys Ford vehicle tires said Ford, but were contracted with Firestone.
Being no expert, but somewhere I read way oil should be stickey? I can not agree with that like STP on
the ways > that will attract anything that walks crawl or flies. How you wipe that clean. Thats a job
for chain oil wipes nicely with paper towel. My next advise is couple small magnets with newspaper
fixed to crossslide so it catches everything keeping my machines clean. Sam

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absolutely, I need to hang this up in the shop; thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Generally, the drilled holes will be for surfaces that aren't motorized. Exceptions being the right end of the lead screw, and the bushings on the countershaft. Oil cups are more common when the shaft is being turned constantly by the power train, at least on the larger bearings.

Don't forget the oil holes in the spindle pulley and back gear shaft. On my Hercus (SB9A equivalent), they are capped by screws which need to be removed to oil. Both of these surfaces are only slipping when the back gears are being used. Don't think I'd use a sticky oil in them, since this area could be adversely affected if the oil got gummed up.
 
Thanks, I didn't see screws in the chart (link provided earlier in this thread).

Here's the oils I'm going to use:

Way: mobil vactra #2

Spindle: mobil velocite #6

Everything else: mobil DTE heavy/medium circulating oil

I've got some white lithium grease as well, but I'll have to read up on where that goes.

This is where I made my purchase:

http://www.bluechipmachineshop.com/bc_store/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=20

I don't have oil cans at the moment so I'll see if the tips of those containers fit into the oiling holes

Thanks again!!!!!!
 
thanks everyone for tips; GK1918, that's a pretty neat tip I've not heard of before, mounting magnets on the carriage or ways to clean up small shrapnels; I tore apart some old computers and they have some pretty powerful magnets in them. I'm sure this will pick up more than the recommended paintbrush would do!!!!!
 
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