Milling head Maximat V10 first inspection: grease and oil
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Hello everybody,
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I am new to the group.
I just got Maximat V10 milling column attached to a very heavy metal base connected to Sweden made xy table. So no lathe.
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I have a no much experience in metal working, but nevertheless I like to start good and new. Recently I started to inspection the mashine, I opened the gear case and I found 2 things:?
1 - the small squared brass piece (used for transporting the gears up and down) was laying inside at the bottom of the case (see pic).
2 - part of the grease inside seemed to be old (see pics)
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1 > At that point I put back the brass on the arm and everything worked just fine. Actually I was able to change the gear position even without the brass, even thou I think it wasn¡¯t the best. Does anybody know why this actually happened? I can¡¯t really understand how this little piece of brass could came out from its arm, because the position it has ¡°locks¡± it against its spot on the gears post.?
One thing to say: the milling column has been transported and stored horizontally inside a wooden box. Might it fell down during this time?
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2 > Regarding the grease, I was now thinking to remove as much as possible from the 2 lateral windows without disassembling everything, and filling in a new one. Now, I already read many threads regarding which grease to use. I wanted to stick to the NLGI 1 lithium-based one advice on the manual, but I actually can¡¯t find fine one like this that is synthetic. The only SYNTHETIC and LITHIUM based I found is a NLGI 2. The NLGI 1 I found comes always as MINERAL and LITHIUM based. Can somebody recommend me a NGLI 1 synthetic and lithium-based? Or would the NLG1 mineral and lithium based work as well? Or is it crucial to actually put NGLI 1?? Would the NGLI 2 work as well?
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3 > Regarding oil for the vertical leadscrew and vertical column, SAE 10 motor oil, correct?
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Thanks in advance
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