I'm cutting lots of MDF on my contractor table saw right now. I don't
have a dust collection system. I cleaned and lubed everything before
starting this project, but I'm not even a third of the way through and
the gears for raising/lowering/tilting the blade are so gummed up I
can't turn them.

Anyone have suggestions for a lube that can hold up to this
unbelievably dusty environment?

I've tried:

hard beeswax -- didn't really work as a lube
paste wax -- worked very briefly but dried out before I even
started cutting
lithium grease -- worked well as a lube but attracts dust like mad
white lithium spray - this worked so-so as a lube, but also attracts
dust like crazy

Thanks for any suggestions!!

you might want to try dri slide

http://www.ipnews.com/archives/fluid...wr_pro_swm.htm

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wrote in message
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I'm cutting lots of MDF on my contractor table saw right now. I
don't
have a dust collection system. I cleaned and lubed everything
before
starting this project, but I'm not even a third of the way through
and
the gears for raising/lowering/tilting the blade are so gummed up I
can't turn them.

Anyone have suggestions for a lube that can hold up to this
unbelievably dusty environment?

I've tried:

hard beeswax -- didn't really work as a lube
paste wax -- worked very briefly but dried out before I even
started cutting
lithium grease -- worked well as a lube but attracts dust like mad
white lithium spray - this worked so-so as a lube, but also
attracts
dust like crazy

Thanks for any suggestions!!

wrote in message
...
I'm cutting lots of MDF on my contractor table saw right now. I don't
have a dust collection system. I cleaned and lubed everything before
starting this project, but I'm not even a third of the way through and
the gears for raising/lowering/tilting the blade are so gummed up I
can't turn them.

Anyone have suggestions for a lube that can hold up to this
unbelievably dusty environment?



I clean the gears with brake cleaner to get all the grease out. I have
sprayed the gears with Top Cote. I would imagine any dry lube would work
well, graphite dust should work well, the stuff you inject into lock
cylinders. Laguna Tools recommends a Teflon type lube. I have used Triflon
with good success.

Graphite grease, definitely.

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 05:12:46 +0000, wrote
(in article
):

I'm cutting lots of MDF on my contractor table saw right now. I don't
have a dust collection system. I cleaned and lubed everything before
starting this project, but I'm not even a third of the way through and
the gears for raising/lowering/tilting the blade are so gummed up I
can't turn them.

Anyone have suggestions for a lube that can hold up to this
unbelievably dusty environment?

I've tried:

hard beeswax -- didn't really work as a lube
paste wax -- worked very briefly but dried out before I even
started cutting
lithium grease -- worked well as a lube but attracts dust like mad
white lithium spray - this worked so-so as a lube, but also attracts
dust like crazy

Thanks for any suggestions!!

"Bored Borg" wrote in message
.com...
Graphite grease, definitely.


Yeah, the grease is the problem, graphite or not it attracts dust.

Leon wrote:

"Bored Borg" wrote in message
.com...

Graphite grease, definitely.



Yeah, the grease is the problem, graphite or not it attracts dust.



Dry graphite lubes are available such as Krylon Sprayon Dry Graphite Lube.

http://www.kpg-industrial.com/produc...graphite_lube/

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA

wrote:

I'm cutting lots of MDF on my contractor table saw right now. I
don't
have a dust collection system. I cleaned and lubed everything
before
starting this project, but I'm not even a third of the way through
and
the gears for raising/lowering/tilting the blade are so gummed up I
can't turn them.

Anyone have suggestions for a lube that can hold up to this
unbelievably dusty environment?

Clean out gears, then spray with open chain gear lube which is
basically graphite which dries on gears.

Lew

On Mar 5, 12:12*am, wrote:
I'm cutting lots of MDF on my contractor table saw right now. *I don't
have a dust collection system. *I cleaned and lubed everything before
starting this project, but I'm not even a third of the way through and
the gears for raising/lowering/tilting the blade are so gummed up I
can't turn them.

Anyone have suggestions for a lube that can hold up to this
unbelievably dusty environment?

I've tried:

* hard beeswax -- didn't really work as a lube
* paste wax *-- worked very briefly but dried out before I even
started cutting
* lithium grease -- worked well as a lube but attracts dust like mad
* white lithium spray - this worked so-so as a lube, but also attracts
dust like crazy

Thanks for any suggestions!!

bar and chain oil

On Mar 4, 10:12*pm, wrote:
I'm cutting lots of MDF on my contractor table saw right now.
....
the gears for raising/lowering/tilting the blade are so gummed up I
can't turn them.

It's like a bicycle chain, more important to keep clean than to
actually make a dynamic film on the moving parts. So, I just
painted some melted paraffin (candle wax) onto the gears
and screws, then warmed it with a hot air gun (propane
torch would work) to get it to liquefy and penetrate.
Work the motions a few times through the full range, and
it should last quite a while.