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A year or so ago I restored a pretty old 4x6 bandsaw - brand name KTS (but not Kalamazoo). It used cam followers for the saw guides.im curious as to what these are for, how they are used, application...
I could have replaced the "straight" ones, but two were on eccentric shafts, and absolutely un-findable. Fortunately, they cleaned up nicely with a soak in WD-40. Checking carefully, and looking at some documentation on similar followers, I learned that there was a cross-hole deep inside the hexagonal recess in the face. Forcing grease into this recess would get it to the needle rollers. The photo shows a Grainger cam follower. Note the tapered end of the hex recess. I fabricated a conical fitting for the grease gun, to take advantage of this feature. The drawing (from Misumi) shows two possible locations for the hex recess, as well as the cross hole.