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Re: Heavy 10 Cross Feed Oiler/Screw for nut?
Thats just a fancy hollowed out screw with a small removable allen screw in the center. Serves two purposes.. the hollowed out screw holds the crossfeed nut tight and the removable allen screws allows you to drop oil on the crossfeed screw, which is important, but if you have a little patience, you could hollow out a screw yourself and find a plug for it.. I am getting mine together too. I just ordered a new crossfeed nut.
Took some time but finally got the apron done. It's such a beautiful thing seeing parts all cleaned up, ain't it? So moving onward to the saddle now and I already see two weird things.
There's supposed to be an oiler port or grease fitting (spring loaded ball type?) and screw of some kind in the saddle in front of the cross feed/compound. It would be #44 & 45 on the diagram I attached. On mine it's a simple cap screw that goes all the thru the saddle to secure the crossfeeed nut. Am I right that I'm missing something (oiler?) or should I leave it or...?
Here's WoodtickGreg's photo and you can see the port I'm talking about.
http://www.hobby-machinist.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=41671&d=1350947750
(EDIT) I ain't gonna worry about it. I'll have to remember to carefully remove the screw, add oil, then put screw back in and that should be fine. I could get a grease/oil fitting from Mcmaster but don't know if it'll be long enough to reach the crossfeed nut.
Thats just a fancy hollowed out screw with a small removable allen screw in the center. Serves two purposes.. the hollowed out screw holds the crossfeed nut tight and the removable allen screws allows you to drop oil on the crossfeed screw, which is important, but if you have a little patience, you could hollow out a screw yourself and find a plug for it.. I am getting mine together too. I just ordered a new crossfeed nut.