Hello everyone,
I've had my Grizzly F0750G FOR two years and have been frustrated by the ball oilers (there are 15 of them). --I was never sure whether the oil was getting where it was supposed to go.
I had purchased the pressure ball oiler can from Grizzley, but this seemed to push most of the balls too deep into the fittings--so the oiler would not pump--it would build up pressure but not pump oil.
If I only pushed the ball down part way with the tip of the oil can-- then I would have no seal between the oiler can and the ball oiler fitting--so I never knew if the oil being pumped was making it's way down the channels to where it was supposed to go (I think the channels are called galleries).
Anyways, I pulled out one of the oilers: the brass housing was 6mm in diammeter and the ball was 4mm, and the opening in the brass housing was about 3.5mm--so I just put the brass tip of the oiler can on a grinding wheel (gently!) and ground maybe a mm off the tip until the diammeter of the tapered tip of the oiler can tip was about 3.3-3.4mm--
--So now the tip of the ball oiler can fits into the ball oiler fitting and seals very nicely-- and I can pump however much oil under pressure into the oil channels as I want--if I keep pumping, it drips out of the bottom of the tailstock, crossslide and saddle--so now I know the machine is getting oiled.
BTW-- I have ball oilers where the brass casing of the oilers are 6, 7, and 8mm in diammeter (the parts diagrams in the manual is wrong on this in my case)
-Hope this helps somebody else who has been maybe frustrated by this.
Bob
I've had my Grizzly F0750G FOR two years and have been frustrated by the ball oilers (there are 15 of them). --I was never sure whether the oil was getting where it was supposed to go.
I had purchased the pressure ball oiler can from Grizzley, but this seemed to push most of the balls too deep into the fittings--so the oiler would not pump--it would build up pressure but not pump oil.
If I only pushed the ball down part way with the tip of the oil can-- then I would have no seal between the oiler can and the ball oiler fitting--so I never knew if the oil being pumped was making it's way down the channels to where it was supposed to go (I think the channels are called galleries).
Anyways, I pulled out one of the oilers: the brass housing was 6mm in diammeter and the ball was 4mm, and the opening in the brass housing was about 3.5mm--so I just put the brass tip of the oiler can on a grinding wheel (gently!) and ground maybe a mm off the tip until the diammeter of the tapered tip of the oiler can tip was about 3.3-3.4mm--
--So now the tip of the ball oiler can fits into the ball oiler fitting and seals very nicely-- and I can pump however much oil under pressure into the oil channels as I want--if I keep pumping, it drips out of the bottom of the tailstock, crossslide and saddle--so now I know the machine is getting oiled.
BTW-- I have ball oilers where the brass casing of the oilers are 6, 7, and 8mm in diammeter (the parts diagrams in the manual is wrong on this in my case)
-Hope this helps somebody else who has been maybe frustrated by this.
Bob