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Author: klook
Date: 2011-09-10 05:55
I wasn't sure where to ask this, and I searched all over the internet and couldn't find a straight answer, so here goes.
I recently picked up another bench motor locally, my old one was fine but this one was cheap and came with alot of other high quality vintage repair tools, so I picked it up.
Its an Erik Brand-ed motor, works great, but I notice at either end of the motor there are little raised holes w/ flaps that lift up, as if these were places to put some oil in??
Thats what I'm wondering, my other motor was an old Westinghouse and had no oil ports, ran fine. The Brand motor runs fine but I sure can put some oil in if it might help things in the long run. Turbine oil I suppose?
Well I figured there might be at least one or two old timers out there that actually had this very Brand motor!
mark
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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2011-09-10 13:46
I use motor oil grade 30, but a little higher viscosity would be better.
richard smith
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2011-09-10 16:16
I use, almost exclusively, MoS2 grease for that stuff. It easily melts when things go hot and tends to stay put when idle. Put a dab of it into each container and you're safe.
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Ben
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Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2011-09-10 17:55
This motor sounds very similar to the Ferees bench motor I have.
Recommended lubricant for that is sae 10 (i.e quite thin.)
Amount depends on usage - they recommend 30 drops once a year for heavy use and same only every 5 years for light use.
Personally I put about 10-12 drops approx every year (or when I think about it).
On no account use grease - this will block up the oilways and prevent the fine oil getting where it needs to go - and eventually lead to bearing failure.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2011-09-10 19:24
These are definately oil cups, not grease cups. 30 weight is most commonly called for if it's a bushed (not ball bearing) motor, and I'm guessing it's not ball bearing if it has oil cups
I worked near a decade on motors and other mechanical stuff in the Navy, from nuclear reactors to WWII tin cans, and every general purpose fractional horsepower electric motor always took 30wt if it had oil cups, a few drops every 24 hrs of operation. Almost impossible to overlubricate a bushing, quick catastrophe if underlubricated.
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