Hey y'all,
I got a dividing head with my FP2, and this weekend I tore into it to clean it up. It was stuffed with dried-up grease, and everything felt icky and sticky. I got a grease gun with my FP2 with some old grease in it. The color matches what I found in the dividing head, but I don't know that I want to use that old gunk.
Are there any particular requirements for this? What's a good grease to use?
Incidentally, when I was disassembling the head, I dropped the gear and dinged up a couple of teeth. I could have kicked myself - this dividing head made it all the way here out of the sixties, and then I go ding it up. This resulted in a couple of tight spots, so I dressed the damaged teeth best I could by repeatedly fitting the gear and stoning off the shiny spots. This won't have done the precision of the gear any good, though I can't have removed more than millionths where the teeth had bulged from the bumping.
So, as a word to the wise, be careful with the precision gear - it's not hardened.
Siggi
I got a dividing head with my FP2, and this weekend I tore into it to clean it up. It was stuffed with dried-up grease, and everything felt icky and sticky. I got a grease gun with my FP2 with some old grease in it. The color matches what I found in the dividing head, but I don't know that I want to use that old gunk.
Are there any particular requirements for this? What's a good grease to use?
Incidentally, when I was disassembling the head, I dropped the gear and dinged up a couple of teeth. I could have kicked myself - this dividing head made it all the way here out of the sixties, and then I go ding it up. This resulted in a couple of tight spots, so I dressed the damaged teeth best I could by repeatedly fitting the gear and stoning off the shiny spots. This won't have done the precision of the gear any good, though I can't have removed more than millionths where the teeth had bulged from the bumping.
So, as a word to the wise, be careful with the precision gear - it's not hardened.
Siggi
