Took a quick look to get an idea on prices, and discovered that there
is a rather bewildering array of oils on offer. I'm looking to pick
up a couple of gallons of a standard-grade gear oil for my lathe's
gearboxes. At a glance, I figure they take about 2qts each.

This is an old machine, so it was never designed with super-high tech
lubrication in mind, and even if it was, my wallet can't accommodate a
$400 pail of oil!

Anybody have any favorites?

Never buy an Itailian lathe!!


Why? I love the Graziano at work. Great machine and easy to operate.
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Stupendous Man,
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On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:33:50 -0500, Prometheus
wrote:

Took a quick look to get an idea on prices, and discovered that there
is a rather bewildering array of oils on offer. I'm looking to pick
up a couple of gallons of a standard-grade gear oil for my lathe's
gearboxes. At a glance, I figure they take about 2qts each.

This is an old machine, so it was never designed with super-high tech
lubrication in mind, and even if it was, my wallet can't accommodate a
$400 pail of oil!

Anybody have any favorites?

I put SAE 30 in my lathe. The factory oil badge is missing, when I
called the US distributor of Lansing lathes, (S & S machinery in NY)
they were worthless. Any oil today is far better than any oil spec'd
40-50 years ago.

Never buy an Itailian lathe!!

Thank You,
Randy

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Prometheus wrote in
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Anybody have any favorites?

Any of the ISO 629/630/630 high pressure gear oils. The difference in the
numbers is the operating temperature range. These are not the "thick" gear
oils like most are used to.

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Anthony

You can't 'idiot proof' anything....every time you try, they just make
better idiots.

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I'm not a fan of the SAE 30 oils for machine lubrication. They smell
too much and are not thick enough IMHO. More and more I use 90W
hypoid gear oil for everything. Seems to make a good way oil also.
Off the rack at your local auto store. Not expensive.

wrote:

I'm not a fan of the SAE 30 oils for machine lubrication. They smell
too much and are not thick enough IMHO. More and more I use 90W
hypoid gear oil for everything. Seems to make a good way oil also.
Off the rack at your local auto store. Not expensive.


I think SAE 30 motor oil may be thicker than 90W gear oil. I learned
this the hard way once. The two oils use different numbering schemes.

GWE

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:07:44 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm,
quickly quoth:

I'm not a fan of the SAE 30 oils for machine lubrication. They smell
too much and are not thick enough IMHO. More and more I use 90W
hypoid gear oil for everything. Seems to make a good way oil also.
Off the rack at your local auto store. Not expensive.

You LIKE the stench of hypoid gear lube?!? Feh! I prefer skunk.

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when
they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 05:40:25 -0700, "Stupendous Man"
wrote:

Never buy an Itailian lathe!!


Why? I love the Graziano at work. Great machine and easy to operate.

It would take me an hour to type in all the weird quirks this Lansing
has. I swear it was the first lathe they ever built, or possibly
seen.

Two biggest, all the arrows for selecting speed ranges are backward.
and the inch threading choices are marked 3/256, 9/128 or 19/512. and
other such weird pitches. I just use the whitworth scale, it's marked
in threads/inch.

Thank You,
Randy

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