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This come come with the lathe and I have no idea what it is for - there is quite a few of them all with morse tapers, this one is 48mm

it had about 5 hours immersed in petrol to no avail. It is now wallowing in diesel and will be there for a few days as I am not about the morrow

had it soaked in watch cleaning stuff overnight - no joy

how about isopropyl alcohol, or even petrol ?

I have found boiling stuff in oil a good way of freeing stuff up, but may keep that tactic until later. Will dry a few days of wd40 type stuff, I also have a contact at a staretts factory, I may email her.

anyway, may be to clarify where it is not stuck, this is it dismantlement as far as I can

thanks for the replies but they don't really address my problem. Part 'A' in my picture (Coarse Thimble Assembly) does not move in relation to Part 'B' ( Fine Thimble Assembly)

This is potentially a nice little tool and I don't want to start trying to force anything with vices, pliers and hammers. Not even sure if I should be trying to get a bit of thin oil between the stuck bit.

this little micrometer came into our possession along with some other engineering stuff, it has an unknown history

It seems quite accurate in comparison to other ones that we have. However part "A" does not move separately from art"B" and there is no torque release (normally you can only tighten a micrometer to a certain tightness, as I'm sure you will all know)

Not sure what the screw spring assembly does on the end.

I feel the whole thing is jammed, some release oil has not helped - so before I start to use some real effort to turn "A" with respect to 'B'. Has anyone got any suggestions or knowledge of this micrometer, and how best to proceed - I don't want to make things worse

Edited By Justin Thyme on 03/01/2023 21:04:44

Indeed car manufacturers are increasing adding technology and functionality that I don't want, i really do detest new cars with a passion. I have access to a new state of the art merc and my old ex works 06 plate van and most if not all of the time I prefer my van. Just simple stuff like heating, the van has the traditional 3 dials, fan, how hot and direction. Probably need to be a trained astronaut to figure out the nonsense in the car, (and at least I don't get cold feet drivng the van)

It is also useful for not exposing them to too much daylight (something youngsters can't tolerate these days) bright light can spoil their social media screen time. I'm sure many drivers would like all round tints so as they too can concentrate better on their mobile phones.

Another question - on the cross slide (Y axis?) there is a Gib that needs adjusted to remove play. there is 4 grub screws that make this adjustment. Is there any particular order to adjust these for best results?

I have just done them up so just an extra few degrees on any of them will make it too tight - but still wondering what best practice is

OK, so it can just be dripped in with the ball pressed down. This would be OK for the hydraulic oil as its quite thin. But some of these oiling points lube the 'slide ways' and as far as i understand these need a 'way oil' which is a pretty thick stuff and I feel this would need to be forced in?

The manual I have is not very good, it just says 'machine oil' for all the points, I take it this is the hydraulic oil?

and a big thanks to all the other replies, all very helpful. And I will be needing as much help as I can get, I don't know much about metal lathes.

I had been think the sight level would also double up as the drain plug, I'm guessing it could be close to the bottom, will need something to catch the oil but can't imagine there is much in.

Where do you fill to ? the middle of the sight ?

Have just come into posession of a Warco WMT500 Lathe, and the manual that I have manage to download is not much help, I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.

From the image below, just above the bed there is a transparent hex shaped oil level indicator, which sort of suggests it has an oil sump. But I can't find any drain plug?
On the top right corner there is large round slotted plug that could be where oil is added or is just simply an inspection hole?

What Type of oil would be used here, the rather vague manual suggests "Lathe Head - Splashing - Machine Oil - Daily" !
would a Hydraulic H32 oil be used ?

also what sort of oil gun would I use on these nipples