The Home Machinist!

Ditto on the nice.

I think we have similar "almost too small to be useful" rotary tables.

The only nice thing about my small rotary table is that I can lift it.

A bit better description or a photo would help.

careful...you may loosen up dirt and have it float into the bearing areas.....

THAT'S cool....

we have an old tractor with a leaky shaft seal on the diesel injector pump....that dribbles into the lube oil sump.....

so I have learned to ask about that is not obvious....

i have seen gear driven pumps that had internal shaft leaks that would dump hyd oil out the drive shaft and down into....wherever...

combine with slightly leaky control valves and you can have thinks that drop in the night.....

or hydraulic oil in your lube oil sump....

GIGGLE....and coal with Sulphur is not acidic?

is what I remember steve doing - although it had troughs in it to increase the surface area....

seem to remember is looking like an accordion from the top with holes in the V sides....

didn't smell like a popcorn engine though

I have seen Steve Bratina running a loco on it maybe 20 years ago....??

required a very funky looking grate IIRC

Did you put new seals in the hydraulic pump?

Is the hyd pump belt driven or mounted on the engine black and gear driven?

Yesterday I spent $125 on gasoline to run my lawn mower for the next 3 months.

It cut grass like a banshee, but us very thirsty.

$5 for a coffee makes it seem cheap to take care of the bearings in our machines...

Of course. Where do you think the smoke came from?

Individual windings are separated by a thin layer of varnish.

Steggy is correct about improper installation of copper and its possible eventual failure and use of stainless, however the tried and true use of copper is just fine. Simple soft soldering is more than enough for this application where copper can be used. Look at IBLS www site for bill van brocklin'...