My Clausing 8540 specifies Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil for the
variable speed drive and S.A.E No. 140 Hypoid Extreme Pressure Oil for
the hypoid gears.

I think that Valvoline 85W/140 HP Gear Oil can replace the S.A.E. No.
140 and I believe that a Mobile DTE24 hydraulic oil in an ISO32 can
replace the Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil. I cannot locate any
specs on the Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil.

Any suggestion or disagreement with these replacement fluids?
Thanks, Steve

wrote:
My Clausing 8540 specifies Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil for the
variable speed drive and S.A.E No. 140 Hypoid Extreme Pressure Oil for
the hypoid gears.

I think that Valvoline 85W/140 HP Gear Oil can replace the S.A.E. No.
140 and I believe that a Mobile DTE24 hydraulic oil in an ISO32 can
replace the Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil. I cannot locate any
specs on the Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil.


Call a Shell or Mobil industrial lubes dealer and ask them to
cross reference this stuff. I had to go through the same procedure
to find the right lubes for my Sheldon lathe.

I did find some on-line charts, though :
http://www.metalwebnews.com/howto/chart/lube.html

I also found something at Mobil that was useful, but I don't have a URL
for it. But, under industrial lubes at the main Mobil web site, they
have a description of all their industrial lube product lines.



Jon

Any suggestion or disagreement with these replacement fluids?

Hard to believe any of your modern candidates would not work well.

http://www.truetex.com/moveclausing.htm

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My Clausing 8540 specifies Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil for the
variable speed drive and S.A.E No. 140 Hypoid Extreme Pressure Oil for
the hypoid gears.

I think that Valvoline 85W/140 HP Gear Oil can replace the S.A.E. No.
140 and I believe that a Mobile DTE24 hydraulic oil in an ISO32 can
replace the Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil. I cannot locate any
specs on the Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil.

Any suggestion or disagreement with these replacement fluids?
Thanks, Steve

Email Mobil - they responded pretty quickly with their equivalents for the
Shell lubes listed in the mnaual for a Clausing 5900 series lathe. A call
to Clausing would probably get the same info quicker.

On 14 Dec 2004 19:06:35 -0800, wrote:

My Clausing 8540 specifies Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil for the
variable speed drive and S.A.E No. 140 Hypoid Extreme Pressure Oil for
the hypoid gears.

I think that Valvoline 85W/140 HP Gear Oil can replace the S.A.E. No.
140 and I believe that a Mobile DTE24 hydraulic oil in an ISO32 can
replace the Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil. I cannot locate any
specs on the Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil.

Any suggestion or disagreement with these replacement fluids?
Thanks, Steve

Pretty much what I use in mine.

And I use Vactra 2 on the ways and ATF on the various moving parts
under the ball oilers.

Gunner



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My Clausing 8540 specifies Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil for the
variable speed drive and S.A.E No. 140 Hypoid Extreme Pressure Oil for
the hypoid gears.

I think that Valvoline 85W/140 HP Gear Oil can replace the S.A.E. No.
140 and I believe that a Mobile DTE24 hydraulic oil in an ISO32 can
replace the Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil. I cannot locate any
specs on the Shell Tellus No. 29 Hydraulic Oil.


I find a couple references to Tellus 29 that lead me to believe it was
closer to ISO46, in which case DTE 25 would be a closer match. DTE
Medium, which is an ISO46 turbine or circulating oil and is what I use
the headstock of my 10EE, would also be fine. McMaster sells it in
gallons.

Ned Simmons