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
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20 years ago