We have a 1916 ?Boye & Emmes' engine lathe. It's just had new
adjustable oil cups installed and after countless google reading we're
still stumped as to the proper viscosity of oil. It's got pretty leaky
plain bearings and we think it deserves low viscosity oil almost to
the range of 'way oil' ? thick. Our thinking is that a slow moving hog
of a lathe needs heavy stuff especially due to the fact that the
bearings leak all over the place. No detergent oil right because we
don't want any dirt particles suspended for some reason. Can anyone
tell us why there are so many different oil standards to date? Are
there oil conversion tables anywhere? Thankx
- posted
18 years ago