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.RC.
12th Mar 2016, 04:07 PM
A lot of ye olde equipment especially from UK origin had lots of grease nipples on it for oil lubrication. Often you will find a clip somewhere on the machine where an oil gun was supplied when new and clipped there for the operator to lubricate as required.

Of course the clip is nearly always empty, the oil gun long since gone. Which begs the question of how to lubricate the machine. You could buy a proper pom pom oiler that leaks oil everywhere OIL Guns POM POM Action 110ml Capacity Alemlube | eBay (http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Oil-Guns-Pom-pom-action-110ml-Capacity-Alemlube-/151655280983)

Or I had a brain wave after I saw these miniature grease guns for sale. Garage Tuff Grease GUN 120cc Metal Nozzle | eBay (http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Garage-Tuff-Grease-Gun-120CC-Metal-Nozzle-/321802099003)

Pull out the handle at the bottom and cut it off removing all the spring and other innards. Then weld up the hole and other join at the end.

Fill with oil and hold upside down to oil your machine, when finished store it upright and nothing leaks out.

swarfless
12th Mar 2016, 04:18 PM
Heretic! With that invention you could destroy the heritage of British machinery..a bit like the Japanese with their fiendish o-rings on motorbikes. Shame on you! Great Idea. Can you get male cone nozzles for them I wonder?

.RC.
12th Mar 2016, 04:22 PM
Heretic! With that invention you could destroy the heritage of British machinery..a bit like the Japanese with their fiendish o-rings on motorbikes. Shame on you! Great Idea. Can you get male cone nozzles for them I wonder?


Don't worry swarfless I did something much much worse then that. I am surprised the great barrier reef was not destroyed by what I did next..

Not having any way oil and sick of buying oil for this and oil for that. I used...chain bar oil. And mixed it with some ISO 46 hyd oil and that was my slideway oil mix.