To grease the back gear shaft and step pulley with the teflon grease,
does one add grease until it just starts to ooze out of the ends of
the bushings??? JOP
--- In southbendlathe@y..., kestrel@n... wrote:
If you have tried to grease the Spindle Pulley shaft and Backgear
shaft on
your SB, you will find two 1/4" x 20 plugs which you need to remove
to fill
with grease. There is no grease nipple to attach your grease so it
make it
very hard to do.
I made a grease fitting adapter by drilling a 1/8" hole through a
1/4" x 20
UNC Hex head bolt and silver soldiering a standard grease nipple to
the end.
If you do not have torches you can drill and tap the grease fitting
into the
end of the bolt.
To use, just remove the grease plugs and screw in your adapter. Pump
full of
grease and remove. Works Great.
See picture of my adapter.
Hope this helps.
Jim
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