Easy Myford Oil Pump Seal

[“Bill Hancox”Participant @billhancox]

I thought this may be beneficial to any Myford turners out there.

I own an Atlas 618 and recently added a gem of a Myford Speed 10 complete with most all of the Myford accessories. One thing that the package was lacking was an oil pump. So last week I ordered one from the UK. I received it here in Canada 4 days later, dropped in some of my favourite hydraulic oil and presto… a mess. I gave some thought to polishing out the concave tip but tossed that one aside. Being an advocate of common sense problem solving, I resolved to fix this with a seal. Now, what to use for a seal?? I went on a scavenger hunt in my workshop and settled on a vinyl electrical grommet that came in a kit of assorted sizes. These were the solid rather than split type. I selected the smallest one in the kit. The diameter of the hole was .200 and the overall length .115.

I removed the spout on the oil pump, determined that the diameter was .281, chucked it into the Speed 10, turned it down to .210 for a distance of .115 from the tip. I added a slight chamfer, very slight, to the very tip.

I slipped on the grommet and was amazed at the result. It worked so slick I wanted to keep on pumping.

[“Bill Hancox”Participant @billhancox]

[Michael WildeParticipant @michaelwilde12011]

Sounds good, got any pics?

[“Bill Hancox”Participant @billhancox]

Michael: They are now also posted in my public album.

Cheers

Bill

[Pierre EHLYParticipant @pierreehly19171]

Hi,

 

I use 50cm of clear plastic tubing (windscreen-wash) forced over

the oil nipple & the oil can

You can see the oil flushing through the tube.

Otherwise Guy Lautard published (ME16jan1981) a small sketch

for nylon/plastic ran adapter

 

have a sunny WE

pierre

 

[JohnFParticipant @johnf59703]

Hi Bill if you see this there are no photos on you profile and these do not show??

Maybe you can post them again–Thanks

[wolrikmParticipant @wolrikm]

I recently replaced the all the nipples on my ML7 with ones that fit my full size grease gun. I removed the old nipples and drilled and tapped all the holes to suit the new ones. I had to remove the saddle to get to the one at the back, which I replaced with an angled one to make it easy to get to. Then I removed the plunger rod, or whatever it’s called, from the grease gun and welded the holes up, same with the air release valve at the other end. Filled it with oil and checked for leaks, and it was OK. Oiling is a doddle now.

 

I still need to do the two for the countershaft, and I could do with changing the one at the front of the saddle to an angled one because the handwheel gets in the way.

 

All I need to do now is learn how to use the lathe to make something other than bushes and spacers.

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