Took a quick look to get an idea on prices, and discovered that there is a rather bewildering array of oils on offer. I'm looking to pick up a couple of gallons of a standard-grade gear oil for my lathe's gearboxes. At a glance, I figure they take about 2qts each.
This is an old machine, so it was never designed with super-high tech lubrication in mind, and even if it was, my wallet can't accommodate a $400 pail of oil!
Anybody have any favorites?
Why? I love the Graziano at work. Great machine and easy to operate.
I put SAE 30 in my lathe. The factory oil badge is missing, when I called the US distributor of Lansing lathes, (S & S machinery in NY) they were worthless. Any oil today is far better than any oil spec'd
40-50 years ago.Never buy an Itailian lathe!!
Thank You, Randy
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Any of the ISO 629/630/630 high pressure gear oils. The difference in the numbers is the operating temperature range. These are not the "thick" gear oils like most are used to.
I'm not a fan of the SAE 30 oils for machine lubrication. They smell too much and are not thick enough IMHO. More and more I use 90W hypoid gear oil for everything. Seems to make a good way oil also. Off the rack at your local auto store. Not expensive.
I think SAE 30 motor oil may be thicker than 90W gear oil. I learned this the hard way once. The two oils use different numbering schemes.
GWE
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:07:44 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm, snipped-for-privacy@sbcglobal.net quickly quoth:
You LIKE the stench of hypoid gear lube?!? Feh! I prefer skunk.
-- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal
It would take me an hour to type in all the weird quirks this Lansing has. I swear it was the first lathe they ever built, or possibly seen.
Two biggest, all the arrows for selecting speed ranges are backward. and the inch threading choices are marked 3/256, 9/128 or 19/512. and other such weird pitches. I just use the whitworth scale, it's marked in threads/inch.
Thank You, Randy
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