@@StefanGotteswinterdon’t ship crap is a better motto than don’t ship. Vast amounts of commodities get shipped around the world every day and that’s mostly a good thing. But manufactured goods are different. The cost, waste, energy consumption, pollution, etc. of manufacturing a piece of crap is often not very different to making something decent, and most of the time we just end up throwing the crap away and buying the thing we should have bought in the first place. So being a cheapskate we pay more and at least double the environmental impact. If we can’t stop ourselves from buying ultra cheap crap, or companies from making it, we should require that when it breaks it has to be shipped back to where it was manufactured for repair or disposal. This sounds inefficient but I think once the mountain of crap appears back at their doorstep the SHEINs and Temus would get the message pretty quick
Merry Christmas Stefan. Instead of a T branch, put in a selection valve. One input and you choose which output. You operate the valves one at a time to get all spots the oil it needs. That was my idea to solve the path of least resistance problem. Thank you.
@@koharaisevo3666 you would use a number of 2 way valves. Not necessarily a six way valve. The valve handle could point at which output is selected. And you would want to put the valves in accessible locations in a practical way.
@@koharaisevo3666 with the valves you can also have exact control how much oil goes to each location. Perhaps there is one location that requires twice the oil of the others.
@@bertblankenstein3738 I understand your point, why wouldn't you just buy a proper distributor block? I can't image it would be much more expensive than a number of valve.
Very good solution. Many of the older machines have "Ball Oilers" I personally think they are the reason for so much wear on slideways. They are such a pain in the A$$ that people do not oil them enough. thanks Stefan and Merry Christmas to you and family.
This video timing is hilarious because I've been packing a 10,000psi 18V grease gun (no battery) for years now and just found it again in a box days ago. Now I can print an adapter for Milwaukee batteries, fill it with oil and have a usable tool. Enjoy your holidays my friend! 🇨🇦
Nice idea and nicely built. Good overview of the distribution considerations, too. Thanks. My mill came set up with the oiler system, but my lathe and some other tools could benefit from the idea of the centralized block and just doing the manual thing once in a while without having to wander around the machine and remember where all the fittings are. The carriage would be an exception because it moves so much. In America the "p" in pneumatic is silent, because we're weird :-)
I love this! I have one of the 20 buck aliexpress (Amazon prime 😂) oilers I am preparing for my milling machine, but now I am tempted to do a DIY version to compare the two! Frohe Weihnachten!! schöne Feiertage für Sie
I have an older FP1 and I HATE pumping that fitting full of oil. There's no sight glass and I can never tell if the oil is getting where it has to go. So this is brilliant. Thank you and happy new year.
This is awesome, I had something like this in the back of my mind. But figured I need to a lot more to the gun to make it function like this. Thanks for showing us this! Side note, it's been a while since I saw one of your videos. So seeing you with the long hair you have now, was a surprise. But it suits you. Keep up the great work here!
Thanks for the great idea, a small plumbing project and grease (way oil) your machine from one location would make it more likely to get the lubrication done. The cheapest way probably being an aluminum block with a zerk for every location on the machine with the block being somewhere easy to get to. Merry Christmas to you and yours! Merry Christmas to everyone else out there too!
Very timely and budget friendly. I was looking at adding single shot lubication to my BF20 clone last week, you just saved me a pile of money. Grease guns here are less than CA$12 new :-) Merry Christmas and thank you for your endless teaching of skills.
I recently purchased an AI Hembrug DR1-S toolroom lathe, and it has around 20 zerk fittings... Apron, tailstock, distal leadscrew bearing, saddle, cross slide, and compound. Every zerk fitting had been pumped full of grease. It required complete disassembly of everything but the spindle (the spindle bearings actually do get grease). Everything was PACKED. It was disgusting. On one hand, it's been a great way to learn the inner workings of the machine. On the other, it's a shame this otherwise beautiful lathe was mistreated so, in its past life.
Fun fact, originally grease guns were designed to coat every tool in the tool box with grease so its hard to hold them and to ensure you hate using them. The fact that it can put grease into zerk fittings was an accidental discovery.
Merry Christmas from East Tennessee. On my T fittings, i used restrictors on one of the outlets. It reduced the flow at the closest outlet, but from what it looks like they both lubricate equally.
The best system I've seen, I can't remember the brand name, You could use normal "T" fittings and distribution blocks. at each oil point was a spring loaded fitting that acted like a tiny syringe and check valve. They were available in different volumes (0.5cc for example) The pump would run a few seconds, fill all the little oilers until max pressure on the oil line was sensed with a pressure switch, then shut off. when pressure was relieved from the line, all the oilers would "inject" their specific amount of oil via their internal spring. Then the whole thing just cycled on and off with a timer as the machine ran This solves all the issues and as an added bonus can self diagnose if there is a leak or blown line and/or fitting.
0:30 maybe he's born with it maybe its Schneidöl. i wish i had of looked after my hair when it was that long Stefan, maybe id still have some 😅 loving the new series you seem more relaxed working from home. Just saw the Bundaberg Ginger beer! best drop out of Queensland
If you have an older machine with a centralised oiling system its really a good idea to strip it apart to check functionality, I don't think I have ever found one where oil flowed properly to all points, if its old there will be a blocked line or metering valve or gummed up oil passages in the slides preventing proper oiling to some part.
Not the M3 type of "grease gun" took me a second or two😂 Merry Christmas Stefan, I hope the New Year works out as well as this year seems to have done for your new career👍👍
Great stuff, as always. I was thinking how a peristaltic pump would perform. I once bought a water dripper with several p-pumps that worked from a timer. Yes, it is electrical and can annoy you if the board etc. fails. What I like about the p-pumps, moving parts don't come in contact with the fluid, they can suck quite well w/o priming the line, and they are pretty precise in dosing. Happy Holidays, another Stefan.
Thank You and merry Christmas! I like the grease gun pump idea, been thinking of something similar to improve my TOS Deckel clone so I will steal that one. Only that being a Swede the M3 should should have been a M45.
Merry Christmas everyone. Maybe you could make a combination of your system for the mill and the last style you drew. I'm thinking of a distributor block with one inlet and several outlets in which a piston with several cross holes runs. By turning the piston to another position another crosshole lines up and you select the next oil line. With this solution you should be able to use your modified pump and can choose individually where and how much oil is pumped. And it should be a fun project to design the crossholed piston with the block. Thank you for your videos Stefan!
For lubricating like a handful of Points, I think a 'one Handle but separate small Pistonpumps oiler' would be cool too. That thing would probably have to look like the Lambda Symbol rotated, where the (Lambda)Arm are the Pumps (in parallel) and the upper Part of the Symbol is the (wide) Lever that actuates all oilers together. The amount can be set by the Piston diameter (well, once) and shifting the mounting point of the Pump would vary its stroke lengths individually. Depending of what and how many Reservoirs those Pumps pump from, you could use different types of lubricants. Obviously, this solution would be a very specialized one. Also hard to design, since you need to know what needs how much Oil exactly. But nonetheless, would be a cool Lubricator. I hope this was kinda clear to follow. Merry Christmas everybody!
Thank you, Stefan. How did you know I wanted some ideas on DIY, one-shot, milling machine lubrication this Christmas? No, really, I did!! BTW, Tommy, my well-marbled cat, sends his best whiskers to Bert & Ernie. P.S. Does your modified pump require any additional venting to keep it from pulling a vacuum? Is there a check valve some place to eliminate backflow when the pump is mounted that low? Cheers, F.C.
Solving an already solved problem "because you like to do it" - I cannot think of a better reason to re-solve a problem. Cheers, Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas. Best wishes for 2025.
Very useful addition, i always wonder how many people bother to lubricate their machines daily 🙄 The oil system on the Deckel FP1 is quite clever, from the zerk fitting a pipe runs to the far side of the oil gallery. If it's filled completely, the oil shows up on the sight glass.
Merry Christmas. Thanks for the oil pump idea. I have a hand pump for my Weiler Condor lathe, but it leaks and needs to be filled regularly. You have given me the idea to mount one of these pumps on the machine with a hose to reach all of the oil points. Cheers Piers PS is that an Australian Bundaberg ginger beer you are drinking?
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I didn’t expect an xmas gift from my favorite machinist youtuber! Merry Christmas!
"Don't ship crap halfway around the world" is a good motto
And kinda hypocritical at the same time, typing this on a phone made in China, filming on a camera made in , etc... 😬🤣
@@StefanGotteswinterdon’t ship crap is a better motto than don’t ship. Vast amounts of commodities get shipped around the world every day and that’s mostly a good thing. But manufactured goods are different. The cost, waste, energy consumption, pollution, etc. of manufacturing a piece of crap is often not very different to making something decent, and most of the time we just end up throwing the crap away and buying the thing we should have bought in the first place. So being a cheapskate we pay more and at least double the environmental impact.
If we can’t stop ourselves from buying ultra cheap crap, or companies from making it, we should require that when it breaks it has to be shipped back to where it was manufactured for repair or disposal. This sounds inefficient but I think once the mountain of crap appears back at their doorstep the SHEINs and Temus would get the message pretty quick
Merry Christmas Stefan. Instead of a T branch, put in a selection valve. One input and you choose which output. You operate the valves one at a time to get all spots the oil it needs. That was my idea to solve the path of least resistance problem. Thank you.
That is a very decent idea!
Wouldn't such valve just as expensive as a distributor block and not as convenient?
@@koharaisevo3666 you would use a number of 2 way valves. Not necessarily a six way valve. The valve handle could point at which output is selected. And you would want to put the valves in accessible locations in a practical way.
@@koharaisevo3666 with the valves you can also have exact control how much oil goes to each location. Perhaps there is one location that requires twice the oil of the others.
@@bertblankenstein3738 I understand your point, why wouldn't you just buy a proper distributor block? I can't image it would be much more expensive than a number of valve.
Doner kebab as a unit had me laughing for far to long.
Kind of "Bana for scale"😂
Very good solution. Many of the older machines have "Ball Oilers" I personally think they are the reason for so much wear on slideways. They are such a pain in the A$$ that people do not oil them enough. thanks Stefan and Merry Christmas to you and family.
Thanks Stefan (and Bert and Ernie).
A great solution, I like it.. and a bonus clip of Bert and Ernie too! Merry Christmas to you too!
This video timing is hilarious because I've been packing a 10,000psi 18V grease gun (no battery) for years now and just found it again in a box days ago. Now I can print an adapter for Milwaukee batteries, fill it with oil and have a usable tool. Enjoy your holidays my friend! 🇨🇦
Merry Christmas Stefan, thanks for a year of awesome content. I wish you and your kin an excellent new year :)
With that hair you could put on a turtle neck and rob Nakatomi Plaza :D
🤣🤣🤣🤣 watched die hard yesterday.
Now I have a grease gun ho-ho-ho
Happy Holidays!! It is always a pleasure. Take care!!
Nice idea and nicely built. Good overview of the distribution considerations, too. Thanks. My mill came set up with the oiler system, but my lathe and some other tools could benefit from the idea of the centralized block and just doing the manual thing once in a while without having to wander around the machine and remember where all the fittings are. The carriage would be an exception because it moves so much. In America the "p" in pneumatic is silent, because we're weird :-)
I love this! I have one of the 20 buck aliexpress (Amazon prime 😂) oilers I am preparing for my milling machine, but now I am tempted to do a DIY version to compare the two! Frohe Weihnachten!! schöne Feiertage für Sie
I really enjoy those simple yet effective solutions. Thanks Stefan, and happy holidays!
Merry Christmas Stefan. Thanks for the video.
WHOA... that HAIR!!!! lookin' GOOD!!!
I have an older FP1 and I HATE pumping that fitting full of oil. There's no sight glass and I can never tell if the oil is getting where it has to go. So this is brilliant. Thank you and happy new year.
Merry Christmas Stefan! Thanks for the vid!
Merry Christmas from the USA.
Merry Christmas Stefan
Extra Shop-Cat content! Thanks, happy holidays
Happy Holidays to you too Stefan. Thank you for the gift of another project to get done over the holidays! ;)
This is awesome, I had something like this in the back of my mind. But figured I need to a lot more to the gun to make it function like this.
Thanks for showing us this!
Side note, it's been a while since I saw one of your videos. So seeing you with the long hair you have now, was a surprise.
But it suits you. Keep up the great work here!
Good information for a needed maintenance of machines.Happy Holidays and happy new year,Stefan.Thank you.
Other advantage to have all oil fittings in the same spot is to not miss any.
Merry Christmas Stefan..thanks for your time
Happy Hollidays to you too Stefan!
Thanks for the great idea, a small plumbing project and grease (way oil) your machine from one location would make it more likely to get the lubrication done.
The cheapest way probably being an aluminum block with a zerk for every location on the machine with the block being somewhere easy to get to.
Merry Christmas to you and yours! Merry Christmas to everyone else out there too!
Very timely and budget friendly. I was looking at adding single shot lubication to my BF20 clone last week, you just saved me a pile of money. Grease guns here are less than CA$12 new :-) Merry Christmas and thank you for your endless teaching of skills.
Merry Christmas Stefan. Thank you for the video.
Happy New Year from the New World to you, Stefan, and Bert & Ernie!
Thanks for all your films. Happy Hollidays 2u2.
Great to have a Stefan video for Christmas.
Have a great Christmas Stefan.
Thank you for this Christmas gift Stefan! 🎄
Merry Christmas . Thanks for this. It's a perfect day for videos.
Most interesting Herbal Essences ad ever
Happy holidays, Stefan. Great video.
Merry Christmas to all und fröhliche Weihnachten für alles.
Merry Christmas, Stefan, and Happy New Year!
Happy holidays!
Awesome modification :)
Good thing you have it already TUV certified
Merry Christmas Stephan. Thanks for all the content. Always appreciated!
Merry Christmas Stefan also Bert and Ernie.
Hope your new year is glorious. Nice seeing you. Stay safe.
Merry Christmas bro
Merry Christmas Stefan! Thank you for all the videos and sharing your knowledge! Joe.
Really great idea. For sure I will be setting up my machines like this.
Thanks.
Happy holidays.
Thanks for the Christmas gift Stefan. Wishing you a fabulous day! 👍
Brilliant- Merry Christmas Stefan 👍👍😎👍👍
Right on time for me. Thanks for sharing these useful tips and tricks.
Frohe Weihnachten!
Merry Christmas,Stefan...I look forward to watching this video later today 🎄
Merry Christmas Stefan, thanks for the great videos all year.
I recently purchased an AI Hembrug DR1-S toolroom lathe, and it has around 20 zerk fittings... Apron, tailstock, distal leadscrew bearing, saddle, cross slide, and compound.
Every zerk fitting had been pumped full of grease. It required complete disassembly of everything but the spindle (the spindle bearings actually do get grease). Everything was PACKED. It was disgusting.
On one hand, it's been a great way to learn the inner workings of the machine. On the other, it's a shame this otherwise beautiful lathe was mistreated so, in its past life.
Good show! Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, Stefan. Good luck with the business.
Happy holidays brother, enjoy.
Merry Christmas Stefan, thanks for the video - love a bit o' penny pinching. All the best for 2025.
Merry Christmas, LEGEND!
I will use the Teflon idea to reduce the mess our grease gun makes in the back of the Land Rover! Merry Christmas. 😂
Fun fact, originally grease guns were designed to coat every tool in the tool box with grease so its hard to hold them and to ensure you hate using them. The fact that it can put grease into zerk fittings was an accidental discovery.
Excellent choice in beverage, Bundaberg Ginger Beer!
Merry Christmas from East Tennessee. On my T fittings, i used restrictors on one of the outlets. It reduced the flow at the closest outlet, but from what it looks like they both lubricate equally.
I do have a manifold as well, and only 2 ports are allowed to oil at a time.
Santa....is that you.....😂happy holidays mate👍👌🇦🇺
ho ho ho
M3 Grease Gun? Well played, sir!
Great idea, merry Christmas
The best system I've seen, I can't remember the brand name, You could use normal "T" fittings and distribution blocks. at each oil point was a spring loaded fitting that acted like a tiny syringe and check valve. They were available in different volumes (0.5cc for example)
The pump would run a few seconds, fill all the little oilers until max pressure on the oil line was sensed with a pressure switch, then shut off. when pressure was relieved from the line, all the oilers would "inject" their specific amount of oil via their internal spring. Then the whole thing just cycled on and off with a timer as the machine ran
This solves all the issues and as an added bonus can self diagnose if there is a leak or blown line and/or fitting.
Thats the piston metering systems - Still to be found on a lot of manual and cnc machines.
Frohe Weihnachten to you, Bert and Ernie.
Xmas special from Stefan ❤🎅 merry christmas
0:30 maybe he's born with it maybe its Schneidöl. i wish i had of looked after my hair when it was that long Stefan, maybe id still have some 😅 loving the new series you seem more relaxed working from home. Just saw the Bundaberg Ginger beer! best drop out of Queensland
Happy Merry, Stefan.
[ note: too much oil in an automobile's crankcase can be fatal . . . but that's the only example i can think of ]
If you have an older machine with a centralised oiling system its really a good idea to strip it apart to check functionality, I don't think I have ever found one where oil flowed properly to all points, if its old there will be a blocked line or metering valve or gummed up oil passages in the slides preventing proper oiling to some part.
Not the M3 type of "grease gun" took me a second or two😂 Merry Christmas Stefan, I hope the New Year works out as well as this year seems to have done for your new career👍👍
Lol 😆 Merry Christmas to you too
Seasons Greetings and thanks Stefan
Great stuff, as always. I was thinking how a peristaltic pump would perform. I once bought a water dripper with several p-pumps that worked from a timer. Yes, it is electrical and can annoy you if the board etc. fails. What I like about the p-pumps, moving parts don't come in contact with the fluid, they can suck quite well w/o priming the line, and they are pretty precise in dosing. Happy Holidays, another Stefan.
Thank You and merry Christmas!
I like the grease gun pump idea, been thinking of something similar to improve my TOS Deckel clone so I will steal that one. Only that being a Swede the M3 should should have been a M45.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year Stefan.
Another great solution, well done.
Very best regards.
Ron.
"If we have the opportunity to not ship crap around half the world..." Amen, Stephan.
Tremendous, Stefan.
Please make sure to show us your lathe distribution system when it is done.
Might be disappointing since i am going to buy a Lincoln SSV Distributor block 😬🤣
@@StefanGotteswinter Well, now I have my solution too. 🙂 I'll check that out.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, Stefan. All the best for 2025.
Enjoyed…good discussion/tips
Jealous of your hair man
Thanks for all your informative videos, Stefan! I have learned so much from your videos.
Have a good Christmas time and a happy new year!
Is that Bundaberg ginger beer? Good choice!
Merry Christmas good sir
Hey Stefan! Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year! ⭐🙂👍
Merry Christmas
Brilliant, my local makerspace has an ancient Bridgeport with zerk fittings on its ways. Whichever workshop it came out of greased everything.
i learned so much about my machine taking it apart to clean it, its worth doing just for that!
Merry Christmas Stefan It's always a pleasure to see your feature
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Wird für die Flachschleifmaschine umgesetzt! Frohe Weihnachten 🎅🏼
Excellent video as always Stefan ! Would you mind sharing the model of pump oiler you use at 7:58 ? Thanks, and merry Christmas to you 🙏
Die Idee ist einfach genial, genial einfach! 👍
Merry Christmas everyone.
Maybe you could make a combination of your system for the mill and the last style you drew.
I'm thinking of a distributor block with one inlet and several outlets in which a piston with several cross holes runs. By turning the piston to another position another crosshole lines up and you select the next oil line.
With this solution you should be able to use your modified pump and can choose individually where and how much oil is pumped.
And it should be a fun project to design the crossholed piston with the block.
Thank you for your videos Stefan!
Thanks a lot
Merry Christmas
For lubricating like a handful of Points, I think a 'one Handle but separate small Pistonpumps oiler' would be cool too.
That thing would probably have to look like the Lambda Symbol rotated, where the (Lambda)Arm are the Pumps (in parallel) and the upper Part of the Symbol is the (wide) Lever that actuates all oilers together.
The amount can be set by the Piston diameter (well, once)
and shifting the mounting point of the Pump would vary its stroke lengths individually.
Depending of what and how many Reservoirs those Pumps pump from, you could use different types of lubricants.
Obviously, this solution would be a very specialized one. Also hard to design, since you need to know what needs how much Oil exactly.
But nonetheless, would be a cool Lubricator. I hope this was kinda clear to follow. Merry Christmas everybody!
Thank you, Stefan. How did you know I wanted some ideas on DIY, one-shot, milling machine lubrication this Christmas? No, really, I did!! BTW, Tommy, my well-marbled cat, sends his best whiskers to Bert & Ernie.
P.S. Does your modified pump require any additional venting to keep it from pulling a vacuum? Is there a check valve some place to eliminate backflow when the pump is mounted that low?
Cheers,
F.C.
Solving an already solved problem "because you like to do it" - I cannot think of a better reason to re-solve a problem. Cheers, Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas. Best wishes for 2025.
Merry Christmas! And here I thought you were going to make a distribution block with a valve on each output line.
nope - THATS the part i am going to buy :D
Very useful addition, i always wonder how many people bother to lubricate their machines daily 🙄 The oil system on the Deckel FP1 is quite clever, from the zerk fitting a pipe runs to the far side of the oil gallery. If it's filled completely, the oil shows up on the sight glass.
Merry Christmas. Thanks for the oil pump idea. I have a hand pump for my Weiler Condor lathe, but it leaks and needs to be filled regularly. You have given me the idea to mount one of these pumps on the machine with a hose to reach all of the oil points. Cheers Piers PS is that an Australian Bundaberg ginger beer you are drinking?
Brilliantly simple.