On 11/28/2014 07:59 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 28 November 2014 at 15:50, Kirk Wallace <kwall...@wallacecompany.com> > wrote: >> In my opinion, grease should not be a first choice. Oil can lubricate >> just as well or better, and carries away heat and dirt > > Oil will fall out. These bearings are mounted in the faces of an > open-fronted box, and there are no seals as such either. >
Sounds like a faulty design to me. I found the links I was thinking about earlier: http://timken.com/en-us/products/Documents/Super-Precision-Bearings-for-Machine-Tool-Applications-Catalog.pdf http://timken.com/en-us/products/Documents/Timken-Engineering-Manual.pdf http://timken.com/en-us/products/Pages/Catalogs.aspx -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
