Dougbert
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- Santa Cruz Mountains, CA
I've been cogitatin' on an oiler setup for my Alaskan mill for some time. A fellow packrat type at work provided a few parts and I cobbled the rest from my stash and a couple of trips to Ye Olde Hardware House. It isn't done quite yet, but I have most of it together.
The reservoir is a 16oz nalgene water bottle that Mrs. Dougbert allowed me to use. Drilled and mounted a ball valve with a male-male adapter, two rubber washers, stainless washer and brass nut. That sounds kinky.
Out of the valve into a spiffy plastic tubing compression elbow. Bottle is hose clamped to scrap length of 3/4" aluminum angle which fits nicely into the mill upright, thusly. I plan to fab a little shelf bracket to help support the bottle.
The tricky bit is the end. I didn't want to drill the bar, so will drip feed the bottom of the bar just after the chain rounds the tip. First good idea was to use magnets to attach the drip to the steel clamp tee.
JB weld and 1/4" neomagicum magnets like so:
The idea being that during mill setup and adjustment the drip end can be quickly moved out of the way and if necessary the whole oiler removed with no tools needed. The magnet will stick well, but I believe vibration will cause it to walk around. Need to test.
Plan 9 is to use a second (free) valve-a needle type-for fine flow control and mount it with magnets similar to this:
My packrat colleague had an excellent idea to eliminate vibration induced movement yet still retain the tool-less magnetic attachment. I'll have to fabricate a small part this weekend to try that idea.
Thanks to Arod for the pics of his setup. Helped get the noggin' coggin'. More later...
The reservoir is a 16oz nalgene water bottle that Mrs. Dougbert allowed me to use. Drilled and mounted a ball valve with a male-male adapter, two rubber washers, stainless washer and brass nut. That sounds kinky.
Out of the valve into a spiffy plastic tubing compression elbow. Bottle is hose clamped to scrap length of 3/4" aluminum angle which fits nicely into the mill upright, thusly. I plan to fab a little shelf bracket to help support the bottle.
The tricky bit is the end. I didn't want to drill the bar, so will drip feed the bottom of the bar just after the chain rounds the tip. First good idea was to use magnets to attach the drip to the steel clamp tee.
JB weld and 1/4" neomagicum magnets like so:
The idea being that during mill setup and adjustment the drip end can be quickly moved out of the way and if necessary the whole oiler removed with no tools needed. The magnet will stick well, but I believe vibration will cause it to walk around. Need to test.
Plan 9 is to use a second (free) valve-a needle type-for fine flow control and mount it with magnets similar to this:
My packrat colleague had an excellent idea to eliminate vibration induced movement yet still retain the tool-less magnetic attachment. I'll have to fabricate a small part this weekend to try that idea.
Thanks to Arod for the pics of his setup. Helped get the noggin' coggin'. More later...
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