Here are the pics I promised back on Tuesday. The oil line layout differs from AiR_GuNNeR's, and is not laid out quite as workmanlike. I had read AiR_GuNNeR's thread, but had forgotten that the picture of his saddle that I grabbed was AFTER he had done all of his scraping. Like his saddle, my saddle looks like it was chewed on by a rabid beaver. The oil grooves were literally created by a hand grinder.
Like Air_GuNNeR, my table was ground very nicely. It is still dirty in the picture below, but the grinding looks a hundred times better than the saddle grinding.
The amount of room to work on the oiler meter units is very tight. I am having to use my 10mm midget wrenches in order to get in there to work. And even then I can only turn the fitting about 1/12 turn at a time.
Here are a couple of closer shots of the oil tubing going to the X-axis ball nut. Unlike AiR_GuNNeR's X-axis ball nut, my ball nut had the oil hole already facing up.
This is the tubing going to the right Y-axis way. There is a tear in the aluminum tubing, but there doesn't appear to be any oil leaking out of it.
After changing out the defective oil meter unit, I still had oil showing up on the saddle after a couple of hours. I bought a couple of M8x1.0 bolts (couldn't find any M8x1.0 setscrews) to act as plugs for the oil manifold. And M8x1.0 was not nearly as common as the M8x1.25 hardware. I determined that the saddle leakage was occurring on the same oil circuit as the original defective oil meter unit, and was happening between the oil manifold and the oil meter unit. Teflon tape applied to the oil meter unit solved the oil leak. I was careful to ensure that no teflon tape could enter the oil circuit itself. I'm still waiting on the replacement oil meter unit to arrive from Novakon before I am able to put the table back on.
If there is any oil siphoning still occuring, it is a minuscule amount. It has been three days and the oil level in the oiler tank has not gone down, even though I know that there a tiny amount of seepage happening around the M8x1.0 bolt plug.
Air_GuNNeR: LIke you, I'm not thrilled about the oil for the X-axis ballnut merely being dribbled out on the ballscrew, and I want to reroute that oil circuit so it goes into the ballnut lube hole. Where did you find the 1/16" tubing that you used?
I have access to surface grinders at the community college and I'm sure that I could get the way surfaces on the saddle to be flat and parallel. But I'm concerned that I might screw up the geometry between the flat surfaces and the dovetail surfaces since I don't have the ability to grind or scrape the dovetails.
Titaniumboy