Hello everyone ... and happy new year!!! Just getting into hobby metal working, purchased a Grizzly G4000 lathe and a G0463 mill. Setting up my garage and...
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mayt4442000
Jan 1, 2008 8:45 pm
... am ... Happy new year Bob I would use the white lithium grease on your cross slide and compound screws and any gears. Your green bearing grease would be...
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mayt4442000
Jan 1, 2008 8:46 pm
... am...
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John Stanton
jcastanton
Jan 1, 2008 9:36 pm
I find that high quality synthetic motor oil is better than grease. It sicks to the surface, makes for a smooth action and does not hols chips as much as...
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Frank Hasieber
fhasieber
Jan 2, 2008 6:26 am
Hi, I belong to a shaper group, the ram on a shaper continuously moves back and forward at the rate of 60 or more strokes per minute, a small to medium shaper...
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David Halfpenny (h)
tuppenced
Jan 2, 2008 3:48 pm
... From: "furkaoberalp" <a.webster@...> To: <mlathemods@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 5:03 AM Subject: [mlathemods] Brazing...
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builderbob54
Jan 3, 2008 6:19 pm
Thanks everyone for input and the heads up against using grease. Just happen to have better part of a gallon of bar and chain oil for my chainsaw, also Mobile...
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Bill Kenny
microrotors
Jan 3, 2008 9:41 pm
How is the quality of 3-in-one oil for lubricating ways and screws? Also what about cutting? Thanks BIll ... -- Thanks Bill...
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Radek Benedikt
rdkbndkt
Jan 3, 2008 9:42 pm
... For slideways is better choice special oil. I am using PARAMO KV 68 (Czech, see www.paramo.cz) It's specification: ISO VG 68; Cincinnati Machine...
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arthurok
arthurok_2000
Jan 3, 2008 9:51 pm
not the greatest id use 3 in 1 electric motor oil its actually sae 20 plain mineral oil. i use something similar to clp break free aerovoe...
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James W. Early
jwearlyatt
Jan 3, 2008 9:52 pm
Bill It is pretty good at loosening the old caked up stuff so you can wipe it off but not as good as WD40. Neither of them are any good for lubrication of any...
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Bill Kenny
microrotors
Jan 4, 2008 1:15 am
James, Thanks, I was using 3-in-one, looks like I'd better change. I was using 3-in-one for cutting and it was splashing on the ways .. so I figured I'd splash...
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James W. Early
jwearlyatt
Jan 4, 2008 1:18 am
The best stuff around is the brown stinky stuff they sell in the plumbing department for cutting threads on pipe. We buy it here in 55 gal. drums, they sell it...
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David Halfpenny (h)
tuppenced
Jan 4, 2008 2:18 am
... From: "James W. Early" <j.w.early@...> To: <mlathemods@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 1:18 AM Subject: Re: [mlathemods] Re:...
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David Halfpenny (h)
tuppenced
Jan 4, 2008 2:41 am
... From: "Bill Kenny" <billcnc@...> ... I used to wipe 3in1 in the ways of my small lathe, with their heavier Cycle and Mower variant for spindle lube...
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Druid Noibn
druid_noibn
Jan 4, 2008 3:18 am
Hi David, Congrats my good man - well-done and done-well. Take care, DBN ... From: "Bill Kenny" <billcnc@...> ... I used to wipe 3in1 in the ways of my...
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John R. Tow
jrt3_2000
Jan 4, 2008 11:31 am
How about 'Marvel Mystery Oil' - or their 'Air Tool Oil' - how are they as lube for lathe ways, slides, spindles? My cans are old - I don't even know if either...
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James Early
jwearlyatt
Jan 4, 2008 12:23 pm
Marvel is great for penetrating services and is a much better lube than WD40 or 3 in 1 oils. However it is not as good a general lube oil as 20-wt machine oil....
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David Clark
ml7engineering
Jan 4, 2008 3:12 pm
Hi There I have been told by management that Model Engineers' Workshop issue 130 is being reprinted for subscribers in the USA and Canada that should have ...
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Bill Kenny
microrotors
Jan 4, 2008 7:30 pm
What is good for actual boring, cutting off and removing bulk material? Thanks Bill ... -- Thanks Bill...
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James W. Early
jwearlyatt
Jan 4, 2008 7:47 pm
That stinky brown thread cutting oil is the best made. -- JWE Long Beach, CA ... From: "Bill Kenny" <billcnc@...>...
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Marty N
mart60145
Jan 5, 2008 2:45 pm
Group: Can someone educate me on the reason(s) there is such a determined resistance to using actual "way oil" on ways and slides? I've tried about every...
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Frank Hasieber
fhasieber
Jan 5, 2008 3:13 pm
Marty, no reason at all, sometimes its a matter of what is available, in South Africa I can buy way oil, but very expensive as the smallest quantity I can get...
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James Early
jwearlyatt
Jan 5, 2008 4:24 pm
Marty I have found on my machines it holds swarf allowing it to cause wear. Now on the CNC machines at work that run with flood coolant and the way oils is ...
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DougOdom
dlodom427
Jan 5, 2008 4:34 pm
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corey renner
corey94945
Jan 5, 2008 4:35 pm
I use way oil on all my machines and it works great. It's thick enough that it stays put, but thin enough that chips can still drip away and not become stuck....
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Stan Stocker
stanstocker
Jan 5, 2008 5:48 pm
Hi John, Marvel Mystery Oil, and their air tool oil, are very fine quality light oils. If you do not wish to purchase specific oils for use on your lathe, I...
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John R. Tow
jrt3_2000
Jan 5, 2008 6:22 pm
Thanks, Stan! I remember years ago having problems finding a ND 5W or 10W 'machine' oil - auto supply houses had 20W ND, that was about it, thus the 'MMO'. ...
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David Halfpenny (h)
tuppenced
Jan 5, 2008 6:23 pm
... From: "Stan Stocker" <skstocker@...> ... And too little to prevent rust. One addition: WD40 is great for removing price labels that won't peel off....
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glenco2@...
Glenco2
Jan 5, 2008 6:30 pm
I have been getting MEW at Barnes and Noble. I have wanted a subsription, is all the turmoil over with the subscription problems? Is it sage to subscribe here...
