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SECTION 6: MAINTENANCE
Always disconnect power
to the machine before
performing maintenance.
Failure to do this may
result in serious person-
al injury.
Schedule
For optimum performance from your machine,
follow this maintenance schedule and refer to any
specific instructions given in this section.
Daily Maintenance:
•
Clean table, boring head, and motor of saw-
dust and resin.
•
Check for loose mounting bolts.
•
Check for worn or damaged boring bits.
•
Check pneumatic oil reservoir level.
•
Empty air filter reservoir.
•
Check for worn or damaged wires.
•
Check for any other unsafe condition.
Weekly Maintenance:
•
Clean and lubricate headstock ways and
leadscrew.
Monthly Maintenance:
•
Lubricate boring head.
Cleaning
Cleaning the Model G0643 is relatively easy.
Vacuum excess wood chips and sawdust, and
wipe off the remaining dust with a dry cloth. If any
resin has built up, use a resin dissolving cleaner
to remove it. Treat all unpainted cast iron and steel
with a non-staining lubricant after cleaning.
Model G0643 21-Bit Line Boring Machine
Lubrication
The Model G0643 has four points of lubrication:
1) the boring head, 2) the headstock slide shafts,
3) the headstock leadscrew, and 4) the air lubrica-
tor.
To lubricate the boring head:
1.
DISCONNECT THE BORING MACHINE
FROM POWER!
2.
Use a grease gun to inject two or three
pumps of multi-purpose grease into each of
the two grease fittings, located on the boring
head rear face (see Figure 31).
Grease Fitting
(1 of 2)
Figure 31. Boring head grease fitting (1 of 2
shown)
lubrication
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