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platypus20:

--- Quote from: ronginger on December 13, 2009, 07:08:49 PM ---very nice job with the lube system. I have wanted to do that to my mill, but afraid of the rats nest of tubes. Yours looks very good. What material are the tubes?

It looks like the flex loops are just plastic in a loop- that looks neats, has it worked well?

ron ginger

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The steel lines are automotive brake lines and standard 1/4" npt x 1/4" compression fittings

It works very well, inside each of the 1/4" npt part of the fittings was tapped to 1/4"-20, and an aluminum set screws were installed, then drilled with a #55 drill bit. This created the necessary orifice to limit the flow, this equalizes the line pressure so all of the fittings receive approximately the same amount of oil. Without the orifices, all the way oil would just flow out the nearest fitting to the pump.

jack

brucealmitey:
wow looks like you are set up for just a bout any kind of job. I like the use of the adjusable length v belts you used on the jet drill. Have you had any problems with slipping busting falling apart? I"m courious because my drive belt on the Royal lathe is very worn. This would save a lot of dissasembly. :headbang: :headbang:

platypus20:

--- Quote from: brucealmitey on December 13, 2009, 09:24:30 PM ---wow looks like you are set up for just a bout any kind of job. I like the use of the adjusable length v belts you used on the jet drill. Have you had any problems with slipping busting falling apart? I"m courious because my drive belt on the Royal lathe is very worn. This would save a lot of dissasembly. :headbang: :headbang:

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The Fenner Power-Twist belts are great, all of the belt driven equipment I have is using it. I've had absolutely no problems with them. I started to use them, when it was necessary to change the drive belt on my Atlas lathe, I went to them to avoid having to remove the spindle to change the belt. A couple of heating contractors locally are using nothing but the Fenner belts on all of the heating and cooling equipment they service, with no problem. While it isn't cheap, they find that the reduction in belt inventories they had to carry and having to go get to finish a job, more than made up for the additional cost. They now just carry boxes of the 3/8", 1/2" and 5/8" belts, and make them to fit. I find they lower vibration, are quieter and run cooler, and the ease of installation and then forget about them.

jack

raynerd:
I like the lube system! Very smart....  :clap:

Chris

Darren:
I like the lube system too ... nice workshop  :thumbup:

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