Found an oil gun in a pile that works and has the correct fitting for the nipples! This is why hording stuff from car boots it a good thing :lol: :roll:
As you can see it took me a few tries and spills to master it.
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All the bearings got a paraffin soak and clean and a grease up (found another grease gun with nice grease still in it).
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All put back the depth adjuster it intoxicatingly smooth =P~
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The height one still is not perfect, might have to take that out again at some point... mind it does have to lift something like 50kg.
Next the horizontal adjuster, which is probably the prettiest. Spent a while remembering how it all went together... then trying to get the lubricating pipes to work probably. The oil just came out then dribbled back down the outside of the pipe. Bending the ends so they faced down fixed that in the end.
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With that all working I got a willing helper to get the table itself back in place (it weighs about a much as a small myford :shock: ).
Now its finally all back together! And everything works notably smoother than before!
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Next I took a quick look at the gearbox and its oilers. What I found was an oily wonderland...
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It all looks like it was put in yesterday :shock: So I think I will leave it alone... the oilers were great, like a cast iron cloud raining oil (literally like rain in there!). It comes from a load of little feeders at the top:
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Having cleaned the little window at the top (which Initially thought there would a big oil tank behind), its only a big drip feeder that does from somewhere else, yet unknown where.
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Considering that there was oil dripping is such quantity from the the top of the gearbox I think it must have a powered means of getting the oil to the top of the machine constantly (then letting it drip back through). No idea where this is yet.