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Gears full of grit - packed with wax - paint on gears - long clean up.
246: Clean up finished on this end. The copper is for draining oil next time.
245: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1 You can see shinny metal flakes at the bottom - already flushe some.
244: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1
243: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1 Flushing the grit out.
242: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1 Set -up to drain back to the parts cleaner
241: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1 Rigged up my parts cleaning tank to flush out the headstock - new filter.
240: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1
239: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1 You can see the grit sitting in the oil grove at the top of the headstock.
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248: This hole was for sliding a tube in to fill the drip gallery with oil - not a straight shot.
249: Ground it out so it has a chance to work.
250: notice the white paint on the gears..
251: Possible design for checking perpendicularity.
252: Comes complete with free metal shavings
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254: Scraped dovetails? or just decoration?
255: Gib direction
256: More to clean.
257: Packed with grease mixed with metal bits..
