MachineJunkie

You are definitely not being overly sensitive. That looks pretty bad, worse than I had thought it might be. I was hoping that after we had discussed my similarly bad experience with Carter's quick change tires that you would find a good resolution to this. For the expense involved in this type of ti...

Thanks for checking your G4B's retainer Pete. I have not made much progress to speak of, I've had to put it aside and work on a few other things. The oil I used was very sparing. I dampened a rag and wiped the ways, followed by a clean rag. There was barely any oil on them. I did try hosing the ways...

I have thoroughly cleaned he ways, and I wiped them with some Mobil DTE that I had on hand. I was surprised that it was noisy given that they were not that dirty to begin with. The idea of making ball retainers is not one I'm too excited about, especially were I to go after the style used in the G10...

Well, my local hardware store had fiber washers, and after trimming to the right thickness I reinstalled the slider. It did nothing to solve the noise issue. I think I have a better handle on what the problem is though. With the fiber washers in place the cage does not contact the steel ways anymore...

Thanks Pete. Do you happen to know how thick the washers should be, and what size hole? I may just order a few different one's from McMaster and see if I can take care of it by trial and error. The cage is in great shape, very slightly bent which was correctable by hand. The rubber bumpers look like...

I just took delivery of a G4B, serial 6816. Overall it is in very clean shape, but I have a couple of issues. The motor it came with was a replacement by a previous owner, a 1/2 horse sleeve bearing Emerson, cool but not right. I'm thinking of putting a 3450 rpm 56 frame motor on it. The arbor would...