BC Prof | 17/07/2022 19:31:16 |
182 forum posts 1 photos | It's been 3years and one month since second GH600 arrived , ( the First one fell over in the delivery van 30 miles form its destination ) Gave the headstock and gearbox an oil change after a couple of weeks after reading horror stories of what was in the oil. Mine came out clean with no nasties . Fat forward to this week . Changed the Headstock and Gearbox oils again. ( Who though it was a good idea to cover the headstock drain plug with the fastening for the splash back ??)
Brian
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Grindstone Cowboy | 17/07/2022 20:55:00 |
1160 forum posts 73 photos | Ooh, nasty! Rob |
Samsaranda | 17/07/2022 22:42:16 |
![]() 1688 forum posts 16 photos | Oil leaks seem to be a thing with Warco geared headstock lathes, I have a BV 20 and if I fill the headstock more than halfway up the sight glass then oil seems to work its way out I suspect from the spindle seals but it’s difficult to find precisely where, good luck trying to sort your leak. Dave W |
DiogenesII | 18/07/2022 06:47:12 |
859 forum posts 268 photos | The apron sight-glass seal could be, er, 'sub-optimal' - the one on mine looked suspiciously like an offcut of hard pvc pipe, from there the oil spreads down the apron, along the bottom of the front and drips off the 'h/stock end' corner.. .. Wouldn't surprise me to find that your brown blob is a residual artefact from the factory rather than a current problem, if the clean oil followed it out.. ..It's not Soy sauce is it?
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Journeyman | 18/07/2022 10:18:47 |
![]() 1257 forum posts 264 photos | The sight glass on my WM250 leaked and on inspection seemed to be held in by some form of putty. Scraped around the sight glass about 2mm deep, gave it a wipe with some meths. Applied clear silicone sealant to fill the groove smoothed with wet finger and this is still working fine with no leakage a few years on. John |
AdrianR | 18/07/2022 12:03:42 |
613 forum posts 39 photos | I have a BH600, when I got it second hand it had a leak from the right sight glass, after an oil change it leaked from the rear. No, I had not swapped the glasses around, and both o-rings were new. I now work on the principle that the leak means I won't have to change half the oil and the gearbox now has a slow feed of oil. |
BC Prof | 18/07/2022 17:55:12 |
182 forum posts 1 photos | I tried to flush out the ????? with paraffin, not wanting to use any other solvent that could affect the sight "glass". No result . I don't intend spending time stripping out the apron . As Mike from SRS said when I last spoke to him , "We have more decades behind us than in front " I will just content myself with a lathe that works very well with a tray that won't go rusty! Brian |
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