Considering a Full Rewire on a Working Schaublin 125 CNC

RotarySMP wrote:

... Starting over I would probably have just injected a little fresh grease. It is easy enough. 

 

OK, so I can just do that and tell myself I’m not being lazy — it’s science. We’ll make an A/B test and see how the machines behave over the years.
Yes, that sounds like it could actually be a thing.

 

Make sure it's good grease!

Once it's in, it ain't comin' out.

I already ordered a tube of Klüber LDS18, according to one of Rotary’s videos, this is the right stuff for the spindle.

It’s really unbelievably helpful to have resources from someone restoring the exact same lathe.

Dudelbert wrote:

It’s really unbelievably helpful to have resources from someone restoring the exact same lathe.

Agreed.

When I was fixing my TorCAM CNC, there was literally nobody else who had the same machine, which was certainly suboptimal.

It's great to be able to learn from somebody else's mistakes.