Total loss oiling?

[Simon Lee 2Participant @simonlee2]

Evening all,

I have a 1940s Portass dreadnought lathe, the spindle of which has plain bronze bushes and wick oilers. Given that they empty over a period of about an hour and a half of use and the used oil drains into the suds tray, is it worth investing in a spindle oil, or just keep filling them up with straight 30?

Thanks , Si.

[Simon Lee 2Participant @simonlee2]

[Chris Evans 6Participant @chrisevans6]

At the age/possible wear on the machine I would be tempted to try a DIN 68 slideway oil. It tends to be a little bit "Gummy" in use but is not overly thick. Try it and keep and eye (Actually a touch with your hand) on the bearings for heat.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

I mix colloidal graphite with my oil for my Drummond headstock bearings so if I forget to put a bit oil in later it doesn't really matter

you can get it from that well known auction site, about 15 bananas

[Simon Lee 2Participant @simonlee2]

Thanks for the advice, that will enable me to consolidate on one oil for all the slides and bearings.

[VicParticipant @vic]

I use slideway 68 on my lathe and mill, it's good stuff.

[CirclipParticipant @circlip]

Used to have a Citroen GS with that type of system, did ensure that I didn't need to change the oil filter regularly. Citroen never solved it.

Regards Ian.

[egaParticipant @ega]

Many years ago S U Belsey contributed an article to ME describing how he captured and re-used the bulk of the oil from his ML7 headstock – the first and last time I have seen the word "tundish" in print.

[Tim StevensParticipant @timstevens64731]

I was looking at the word TUNDISH only yesterday, in a Reader's Digest Atlas of GB, from about 1965. The topic of the section was 'local dialects in UK'. Tunning dish and Vunnel were also used. Tundish extended (then) from Liverpool down through the west midlands to about Bristol.

And as far as I know, the last motor vehicles which had total loss oiling (apart from 2-strokes) were Speedway JAPs.

Wonderful the stuff which lodges in the brain, and gets in the way of remembering useful stuff…

Regards, Tim

[egaParticipant @ega]

Tim Stevens:

I clearly need to update my statement! That use of the word is entirely new to me and not even mentioned in my OED – as the RD would say "It pays to increase your word power" but I agree it can also take up valuable brain space.

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Down here in Essex a tundish was used for the overflow on a wc cistern. The water runs into the tundish then out  to a drain. The idea was that when one saw the tundish with water running into it one knew that there was an overflow problem, which one would not know if it was allowed to discharge straight to the drainage system.

So i suggest you write to RD & tell them their dialect plan is wrong

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 30/03/2016 15:35:20

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

Brewery's use tuns as in Mash Tun (where you extract the sugars from the Malted Barley with near boiling water). The resultant worts then go to the Hop Back where the hops are added. So Tun Dish describes a funnel for use in breweries for decanting fluid from a large container. I would expect the word to have travelled to other industries. I know my dad tended to call a funnel a tun dish.

regards Martin

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