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  1. #16
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    HI,
    I will take a Photo of it and Post it Tonight.
    All The Best steran50 Stewart

    The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

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    Default hydraulic oil

    I use hydraulic oil too (the stuff that I have in a large drum for the tractor)
    I re-do the ways often (The "way" oil is sticky and messy like chainsaw bar oil)

    I had gone to a local machine shop to scrounge the way oil and was told that the pros dont use it (and instead use hydraulic oil for everything)

    I use a moly grease on the open gears

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    Quote Originally Posted by lather View Post
    forgive me for asking a stupid question, have owned an al 960b about 1.5 years now,
    where is the rack oil point situated, have used grease or just shoot oil upwards into the rack, had not realized there was an oil point.
    HI,
    Lather I think I'm a D/head. I had another look at the Oil Point that I always thought was for the Rack when I was taking the Photo. Upon having another look it can't be for the Rack as it is directly above the Way. I think that it is the original 'Way' Oil Point on the Operator side, but because the Cross Slide Dro Scale obstructs it another Oil Point for the 'Way' is fitted on Al-960b Lathes with DRO's.
    Lather is Your AL-960b fitted with a DRO ?.
    All The Best steran50 Stewart

    The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

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    I think you are correct, my AL960B doesn't have the DRO (more's the pity) and it has a single oiler where yours has 2 so your theory is obviously correct.

    The strange thing, however, is that whereas your photo shows the "original" oiler very close to the cross slide (1/2" or so) the oiler on my non-DRO model is 2 1/4" from the cross-slide which would be to the right of your second oiler.

    The rack is manually greased from time to time. I found a spray can of Rocol Open Gear grease at CBC Bearings that I use for the rack and the gear train.

  5. #20
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    The lathe didn't have a dro, the oiler is much further from the cross slide compared to the pix, a dro would not cover the oiler.

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