Good to see it progressing Darren
My two cents:??
If Ed says the cam followers are slush filled that just means there's enough grease in them to stop it rusting etc so it still needs extra grease before being put into use.? Agree you don't need to put is a zerk but you will need to fill the internal space inside the cam follower with grease (without blowing the seals!).
Most people opt for mist, drip or brush applied coolant mainly because of the mess it causes if coolant leaks onto the floor. The key thing about a tray around the saw for flood coolant is that it is outside the 'drip-line' of anywhere the coolant can be carried to. A lot of 4x6's, even with coolant from the factory, still dripped on the floor because the coolant was carried to, and/or ran down to, some low point outside the edge of the tray, especially at the back where using coolant in horizontal mode and then tipping it vertical, created drips on the floor.
And something related to both blade guide bearing and coolant.? Coolant causes swarf to stick to the wet blade and so swarf gets carried through the nip between blade and guide bearings.? Bill's right in that the loads on the bearings are not high in relation to their load carrying capacity in normal running, but these things fail regularly and something must cause that.? I believe its due to the impact loading sustained when a 20thou bit of swarf goes between the 0-10thou gap between blade and roller. This can be avoided if you use a blade wiper or scraper as in this doc:???in the Files section.? Then you run the blade to guide bearing clearance at minimum, say 1-2 thou,?and get maximum guidance for the blade - jv
