03-18-2022, 08:12 PM
This is not a "how to do it"... but how "I" do it...
A light coating of grease on the 'gear' side of the scroll and around each of the pinions. Everything else gets a light coat of way oil. ID and OD of the scroll ring and the scroll 'spiral' and chuck jaws, slots for the chuck jaws etc.
I say use a LIGHT amount of lubrication because if you don't you'll end up wearing it and painting a nice vertical racing stripe on ceiling and the closest surfaces behind and in front of your lathe chuck. Ask me how I know.
Grease on the scroll and chuck jaws only acts as a swarf magnet as far as I can tell.
A light coating of grease on the 'gear' side of the scroll and around each of the pinions. Everything else gets a light coat of way oil. ID and OD of the scroll ring and the scroll 'spiral' and chuck jaws, slots for the chuck jaws etc.
I say use a LIGHT amount of lubrication because if you don't you'll end up wearing it and painting a nice vertical racing stripe on ceiling and the closest surfaces behind and in front of your lathe chuck. Ask me how I know.
Grease on the scroll and chuck jaws only acts as a swarf magnet as far as I can tell.
Willie