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HELP: Out of Windage - Scope Base Screw Hole Alignment Check?
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<blockquote data-quote="SidecarFlip" data-source="post: 743469" data-attributes="member: 39764"><p>I've never been fond of metal surface plates. I have 2 LSS Pink Granite plates, a checking plate and a toolmakers ledge plate.</p><p> </p><p>The vari speed head is a nice touch and does make spindle speed changes easier but I have the old step pulley heads, except the Haas which has electronic drive. Long as you keep the packs floating in light oil, the old machines stay tight once the proper preload is set. The intermediates on the old step pulley heads like to back out ocassionally, thats about it.</p><p> </p><p>When I spool one up, if it don't spray me with oil, it's running too dry.</p><p> </p><p>Thats probably the one biggest destroyer of machine tools, lack of proper lubrication, especially boundary lubrication on slideways. You work in a shop and you run machines but you don't service them. Maintenance does so service is spotty at best and non existent at worse. I've seen some serious wallowed out and scored ways on machines that were the direct result of poor maintenance practices.</p><p> </p><p>There are no dry slides in my shop. I'm very religious about lubrication, especially boundary lubrication. In my shop, Vactra comes in 5 gallon pails and Velocide in 15 gallon drums. </p><p> </p><p>I'm a grease junkie. I bought a Lincoln air greaser that fits on a 55 gallon drum and 150 feet of grease hose so I can grease my ag equipment everythime I use it and not with cheap clay based grease either. I use a teflon fortified full synthetic HP grease from Lubrication Engineers. It costs plenty but grease is cheap compared to......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SidecarFlip, post: 743469, member: 39764"] I've never been fond of metal surface plates. I have 2 LSS Pink Granite plates, a checking plate and a toolmakers ledge plate. The vari speed head is a nice touch and does make spindle speed changes easier but I have the old step pulley heads, except the Haas which has electronic drive. Long as you keep the packs floating in light oil, the old machines stay tight once the proper preload is set. The intermediates on the old step pulley heads like to back out ocassionally, thats about it. When I spool one up, if it don't spray me with oil, it's running too dry. Thats probably the one biggest destroyer of machine tools, lack of proper lubrication, especially boundary lubrication on slideways. You work in a shop and you run machines but you don't service them. Maintenance does so service is spotty at best and non existent at worse. I've seen some serious wallowed out and scored ways on machines that were the direct result of poor maintenance practices. There are no dry slides in my shop. I'm very religious about lubrication, especially boundary lubrication. In my shop, Vactra comes in 5 gallon pails and Velocide in 15 gallon drums. I'm a grease junkie. I bought a Lincoln air greaser that fits on a 55 gallon drum and 150 feet of grease hose so I can grease my ag equipment everythime I use it and not with cheap clay based grease either. I use a teflon fortified full synthetic HP grease from Lubrication Engineers. It costs plenty but grease is cheap compared to...... [/QUOTE]
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