One shot oiler question

[g29cc]

How many "shots" do you pull when oiling your machine ?

Right now I do 10-12 pulls to make sure that the machine has oil in all areas. Because less then that and I don't see oil spilling out of the ways on the back.

[Frogblender]

Maybe 6 pulls to start, and a pull or two every once and a while.

10-12 must take a fair bit of time.

I notice that some ways start spilling before others.

[g29cc]

I notice too that the some spill before others. The last one to show oil is the top of my z linear. The bottom one is almost instantly , the top the the very last thing I notice.

Yeah it does take more time to oil then I like....

[gleas]

The oil gets dispersed differently for each axis, x and y seem to be about the same with mine. Rather than waste oil trying to get it to the z axis ways, I just manually oil them.

-Greg

[g29cc]

I did 8 pulls last night and waited, it slowly came out of the top z bearing. So I ll do 8 pulls and then maybe one later in the day as well.

I manually oil my other mills, so while it wouldn't be much to do it with this one as well, I can't get to all the ways underneath good enough, so I would rather waste a little oil in hopes that I am really getting oil to them also.

Thanks
Todd

[ihavenofish]

1 pull gets oil ooozing out the x ball screw on my nm200, but i think mines got a different oiler than the new ones. its got a force feed lever. 8 pulls seems extreme.

then nm145 has a slow action pull handle, and it seems to be fine with 1 pull getting all around.

in my experience, you dont want lots of oil, you want a nice thin film of clean oil. if you overtravel the 200 on the saddle you can see easily if its dry or filthy. 1 pull every 3-4 hours running does the 200 well.