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Recently added felt wipers to my 1340GT lathe, the stock rubber wipes on the carriage do a good job of wiping away chips but do not retain the oil.
I'm pretty sure since our lathes are made in the same factory that they use the same rubber wiper. The majority of oil loss is along the long edges of the sliding surfaces. Without some kind of feed system to the felt I'm curious how much they would contribute to retaining oil. Now that you have first hand experience using felt how much do you think the felt adds to retaining oil?
The tailstock had no wipers and you could often feel grit getting underneath it.
Mine is the same way. I mentioned this to Matt at PM. He sent me an extra set of rubber wipers to put on the tailstock. I could make an argument here for felt since there are no oil ports on the tailstock base and it would at least provide some light lubrication. I plan on adding oil ports to the tailstock when I install the rubber wipers. My previous am much inferior lathe to my current one had wipers and oil ports on the tailstock. I wonder how common that is? Another thing on the to do list.
Delrin should not have any wear affect on the bed.
As long as they are a good fit to minimize the size/amount a debris that could get swept underneath the Delrin should have no effect on the ways. [/QUOTE]