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  1. #1
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    Default Way oil available to pick up - northern Sydney

    I just took delivery of 20L of Tacway 68 way oil (Tacway 68 & 220 - Gulf Western Oil - Gulf Western Oil). 20L of it will go bad before I use it all, so if anyone wants some send me a note and if you bring a container you can have some for what I paid ($6 / litre).

    I'm near Wahroongah.

    Phil.

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    Hi Phil,

    How much are you wanting to get rid of?

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    Hi mate I would be interested in a couple of liters.
    BETTER TO HAVE TOOLS YOU DON'T NEED THAN TO NEED TOOLS YOU DON'T HAVE

    Andre

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flo View Post
    How much are you wanting to get rid of?
    Not trying to get rid of any specific amount. Just offering to fellow garage metal chip makers. I hate buying it at $20/litre from EBay profiteers. 5L will last me years.

    Phil

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    Quote Originally Posted by welder View Post
    Hi mate I would be interested in a couple of liters.
    Hi - just send me a PM and I'll give you a number to SMS me on for details. Bring a container and we'll pour you some.

    Ditto for anyone else, just PM me.

    Phil

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    Hi Phil,

    I'd be happy to take 5 litres.. I'll PM you later..

    Adam

    Edit: quantity..

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    Just to be clear this is for machine ways. If anyone is looking for a good buy for headstock / gearbox oil, Bunnings (eck!) sells Valvoline ISO 68 for $32 for 5L, ($79 for 20L in some stores): https://www.bunnings.com.au/valvolin...il-5l_p0066175

    If you have lathe with an open screwcutting gearbox like my AL-960B you go through a lot of gearbox oil...

    Phil.

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    Thanks for the clarification Phil!

    Flo

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    Quote Originally Posted by SP_Flip View Post
    Just to be clear this is for machine ways. If anyone is looking for a good buy for headstock / gearbox oil, Bunnings (eck!) sells Valvoline ISO 68 for $32 for 5L, ($79 for 20L in some stores): https://www.bunnings.com.au/valvolin...il-5l_p0066175

    If you have lathe with an open screwcutting gearbox like my AL-960B you go through a lot of gearbox oil...

    Phil.
    My lathe goes through no oil, sounds like the tiawonese lathes are oil hungry.
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    My Myford drinks the stuff ! There is a permanent puddle under the headstock.
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave J View Post
    My lathe goes through no oil, sounds like the tiawonese lathes are oil hungry.
    Per my post it's an *open* Norton gearbox. Nothing to do with being Taiwanese. The screwcutting gearbox is open at the bottom: each day you squirt some oil into a pad at the top and it drips through some strategically positioned holes onto the gears and bushings and the excess drops into the chip tray. This is the traditional design of gearbox. At least it has a good design for the reservoir: in classic lathes (eg the South Bend 9" that's the template for so many small lathes) you squirt the oil up from underneath. You just don't clean the chip tray with compressed air or you blow all the chips up there.

    The 960B is excellent. I'd rate it the best value medium workshop lathe in Aus right now. You can buy it for the same in $Au as the Americans pay in US$ for the same machine with the same features, and the quality is first rate. The design is dated, but the manufacturing equipment must be right up to date as fit, finish and (most importantly) accuracy are excellent. Even the 3 jaw is repeatable to about 0.05mm / 0.002" or so.

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