Brake cleaner flooded through every oiler you can reach. Hose it, let it drain for a while, then do it again. Repeat as necessary until it moves, then flood and let drain spindle oil several times.?
Should free it up if there isn't a mechanical blockage.
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by:
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.?
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Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome. Physics doesn't care about your schedule. The only reason I know anything is because I've done it wrong enough times to START to know better.
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On Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:51:55 PM CST, rfmarchi1 via groups.io <rfmarchi@...> wrote:
I sold my place in West Virginia a couple of years ago and moved the shop to a garage in Southern Maryland. Life intervened and I'm just getting around to setting the shop back up. When I moved the 10' Atlas lathe I took off the motor and pulley assembly as
a unit, stripped it of all tooling, chucks, tailstock, etc, and took it?off the bench it was bolted to. It arrived intact and the spindle was turning freely. I occasionally put a few drops of spindle oil in the headstock oilers and the other oil points. The
garage is insulated, heated,?and cooled. A few months ago, I noticed that the spindle was not turning freely. The back gear pin is not engaged and the back gears turn freely. I was down there a couple of weekends ago and put some Kroil in the oilers, hoping
that it would do its magic. No luck, so far. Obviously, I can disassemble the spindle and dig into the problem or I could try some heat and brute force. But I wondered if anybody on the group has a suggestion that I might try before I get into teardown mode????
Bill in OKC too