Still use it on my tool belts too.Does 'Dubbin' have an application here. Much used in my Army Cadet days for field boots (NOT parade boots!) I still keep a tin for my walking boots.
Are there no zig-zag oil ways along those slides Pete ? There are on the likes of the Jones and Shipman grinders.
Finished scraping the knee z-axis ways today. Not done the angled way as I need to scrape the column ways first to scrape these to.
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Dug out the Y-axis gib. Absolutely filthy and gummed up with a mix of iron dust and old oil or grease.
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After it's cleaned you get a good look at what happens when oiling is neglected. The metal on the face has galled and torn out of the face.
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It looked at least 20 thou deep so I didn't fancy scraping that. I put it in my milling machine setting the angle by putting one vice inside the other and using a dial gauge to set the face flat.
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After milling the gib face scraping it was easy enough.
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