techymechy
Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2018
Thanks for your replies to my threads Jim.
I trammed the head and squared the vice. I made a simple tramming bar with a dial indicator on the end which basically spans my entire table length. I got the head tram pretty close.
There is a guy on Facebook who has a couple of pages dedicated to Bridgeport Mills. He recommends Mobil Vactra #6. I bought a gallon but now think it’s too thin. I’ll go pick up a quart of 0W20 synthetic like you recommended. I have some 5W30 synthetic at home. Do you think this will work?
I’ll ask a couple of guys on the steam club their opinion on the head noise. I don’t know if it is a worn spline or bad bearings, ??? My spindle runout is 0004-.0005” and my collets are about.0005-.0008” when I use a pin gage in the collet. I’ll try the synthetic oil you recommended.
I trammed the head and squared the vice. I made a simple tramming bar with a dial indicator on the end which basically spans my entire table length. I got the head tram pretty close.
There is a guy on Facebook who has a couple of pages dedicated to Bridgeport Mills. He recommends Mobil Vactra #6. I bought a gallon but now think it’s too thin. I’ll go pick up a quart of 0W20 synthetic like you recommended. I have some 5W30 synthetic at home. Do you think this will work?
I’ll ask a couple of guys on the steam club their opinion on the head noise. I don’t know if it is a worn spline or bad bearings, ??? My spindle runout is 0004-.0005” and my collets are about.0005-.0008” when I use a pin gage in the collet. I’ll try the synthetic oil you recommended.
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