Hi I just got an old 1951 Bridgeport round ram, with a 60s era J head (great deal). Z has the tab broken of the top of the gib and is stuck but that's a story for another day. For now I pulled out the riser block and am just using the quill and doing small stuff. I will get around to doing surgery on it to extract the gib at some point. Thanks for the great forum, I read a lot about the process of rescuing the knee on here.
The saddle on this one only has 2 oil zerks that deposit on the Y axis ways. Anyone else have this style and what's the best way to lube the X axis ways? Right now it seems I have to reach under the table and squirt some way oil on the dovetail and slide the table over into it. I hope I'm just missing something. The old manual mentions something about an oil nut in the center of the table but all I can see is a hole (that appears to be plugged up on mine) and since it's not a zerk I can't imagine the oil will go very far with gravity alone if I am in fact supposed to just drip some in that hole in the middle of the table.
Thanks,
Nick
The saddle on this one only has 2 oil zerks that deposit on the Y axis ways. Anyone else have this style and what's the best way to lube the X axis ways? Right now it seems I have to reach under the table and squirt some way oil on the dovetail and slide the table over into it. I hope I'm just missing something. The old manual mentions something about an oil nut in the center of the table but all I can see is a hole (that appears to be plugged up on mine) and since it's not a zerk I can't imagine the oil will go very far with gravity alone if I am in fact supposed to just drip some in that hole in the middle of the table.
Thanks,
Nick