Trick for Greasing Head and Backgear Shafts on 9" SB Lathe

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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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Paul R. Hvidston

#93

Very Good!
The lube chart says Teflon grease. What brand/type are people using. The
reason I ask is that I'm getting another headstock that has the back-gear
and I'll need to overhaul it.

Paul R. Hvidston
Upland, CA

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----- Original Message -----
From: <kestrel@...>
To: <southbendlathe@...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:36 PM
Subject: [southbendlathe] Trick for Greasing Head and Backgear Shafts on 9"
SB Lathe

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 tofill
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" x20
UNC Hex head bolt and silver soldiering a standard grease nipple to theend.
If you do not have torches you can drill and tap the grease fitting intothe
end of the bolt.

To use, just remove the grease plugs and screw in your adapter. Pump fullof
grease and remove. Works Great.

See picture of my adapter.

Hope this helps.

Jim

Visit my Genealogy Home Page.

Researching: Bennett,Burry,Taylor,White.
Other Names: Gibbons,Gibson,Kelly,Randel,Moore.
to name a few.

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#116

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



Visit my Genealogy Home Page.

Researching: Bennett,Burry,Taylor,White.
Other Names: Gibbons,Gibson,Kelly,Randel,Moore.
to name a few.

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Trick for Greasing Head and Backgear Shafts on 9" SB Lathe