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Posted by JamesC on April 28, 2008, 4:24 am
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I have recently become the proud owner of a Clarkson Mk1 cutter
grinder. It is in good shape but was very dirty. I have successfully
cleaned it up but would like some advice on lubrication.
When I dismantled it all the slides were lubricated with grease.
Should I replace this? or run them dry. If I do apply grease will it
turn to grinding paste in short order.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, James
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Posted by Peter A Forbes on April 28, 2008, 4:41 am
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wrote:
>I have recently become the proud owner of a Clarkson Mk1 cutter
>grinder. It is in good shape but was very dirty. I have successfully
>cleaned it up but would like some advice on lubrication.
>When I dismantled it all the slides were lubricated with grease.
>Should I replace this? or run them dry. If I do apply grease will it
>turn to grinding paste in short order.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks, James
If the machine is used with the dust extraction unit, it isn't so much of a
problem, but most I have seen have run dry, including the one we have.
http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/Ward/Clark1.htm
Peter
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Prepair Ltd, Rushden, UK
peterforbes@prepair.co.uk
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http://www.prepair.eu
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Posted by ravensworth2674 on April 28, 2008, 4:51 am
Please log in for more thread options Congratulations on the Mk1.
There is far less grit on the machine than on a lot of others.
For what it is worth, I oil mine with whatever comes to hand and I
wipe it clean of the mixture of old oil and grit. Any grit sticks to
the oil!
QED and that
Norm
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Posted by JamesC on April 28, 2008, 5:57 pm
Please log in for more thread options Thanks guys, pretty much what I thought, but having read the Quorn
book where any lubricant is a major no no I thought I'd ask. I
definitely can't take the advice of moving the grinder outside when I
dress the wheels. I don't think the hernia would survive.
I guess after the initial large backlog of blunt cutters I will only
be doing smallish batches so the protection the oil provides will be
more important.
Regards
James
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Posted by ravensworth2674 on April 29, 2008, 3:19 am
Please log in for more thread options James,
you have misread Chaddock's intentions as the designer of
the Quorn.
Assuming that grinding grit is bad for you, then you take precautions
to avoid breathing it. That applies whatever you have!
So onto the Quorn and the Clarkson as machines. I have built a Quorn
and use a Stent and have a Kennet and a Clarkson( wow!) The Quorn is
bedevilled by grit stopping its works- not just yours. This goes for
the Worden and to some extent for the Kennet. The Clarkson and the
Stent have 'flat' worktables and therefore the grit is less likely to
get into the works.
If you concentrate on reading into the Quorn, you will find all sorts
of 'workarounds' have been published since 1973. Chaddock made a
bellows like that on a folding camera, others purloined hospital
piping and others with fancy bellows but mine has a gentleman's trilby
hat suitably trimmed. It's bit like Stephenson's Rocket whose wonky
cylinders were packed with the foreman's felt hat.
So there you have it
Cheers
Norman
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>grinder. It is in good shape but was very dirty. I have successfully
>cleaned it up but would like some advice on lubrication.
>When I dismantled it all the slides were lubricated with grease.
>Should I replace this? or run them dry. If I do apply grease will it
>turn to grinding paste in short order.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks, James