Supplies Needed for Maintenance (0:00-3:05)
0:05-3:05: “Hello. Hello, I’m Chris, and this is Mason once again. Uh, I believe this is the sixth and final video of least the core training that teaches us, again, how to just set up and operate the machine. Uh, this video, we’re gonna specifically focus on the maintenance that’s required with the platform so that she’s gonna run nice and smooth for us for as long as possible. Uh, so the first thing I want to cover in this video is the supplies that we need in order to maintain it for a daily, weekly, and even a long-term maintenance. So let’s show you all these supplies and break ’em down what, where and when we’re gonna use ’em. Okay? So what we have is, I’ve broken this out into two separate categories. You’re gonna have on this side is your weekly maintenance supplies that we’re gonna need on this side is your monthly maintenance supplies that we’re gonna need. I said that wrong. Monthly, daily and weekly, not weekly and monthly. Okay. So here we’ve, uh, broken this up into two separate groups. We have our daily maintenance supplies and we have our weekly maintenance supplies here. So for daily maintenance, uh, I recommend that you have some solution to clean off the pitch off of your cutters. So this is in, uh, 99% rubbing alcohol, isopropyl rubbing alcohol. Um, I like to have a, some Tupperware that I can put the rubbing alcohol in so I can keep reusing it until it gets too diluted and we’ll show that taking place a little bit later. Um, with that to um, maintain cutters, I like to have a wet diamond stone for a honing tool, um, to clean out the call it and call it nut and tool holders, um, while I’m changing out my tools. And then obviously some dyna glide to keep things pristine as again, we’re maintaining our tools as well. Uh, last thing we’ll need on a daily maintenance, at least some cleaning rags. And we’ll be using these also in the weekly maintenance as well. So that’s, uh, for a daily you’re gonna need something like that. The weekly maintenance we’re gonna need mostly is the grease. We’re gonna have our specialized grease. This is the shell gaddis grease, the S3 V two 20 C, and we’ll have this on the resources for you guys. Just get this off of Amazon. It’s a high temperature, high pressure, um, grease, and you’re gonna need a grease gun for your weekly maintenance. I recommend getting a grease gun that has a locking tip so it locks right onto the ERT fittings. Uh, makes it a lot easier to, again, get the grease where it needs to be. Um, with that, um, I like to have some scotch bright or still wool handy just in case we need to, um, start cleaning any rust or contamination that crept up on us. Um, we also want to have, um, with that I like to usually use some, um, WD 40 to, uh, with the scotch bright to help clean, um, to prevent rust and contamination once a week. I like to apply this to our tool holders. This is a, a dry, uh, grease lubricants and technically it’s a, a Teflon spray and it actually takes about 24 hours to dry to the surface that we apply it on. We’ll show how that takes place as well. So that’s our weekly maintenance and all the supplies all together. And this will allow us to again, maintain the machine for as long as possible.”
Daily Maintenance Procedures (3:05-12:06)
3:04-5:36: “for as long as possible. Now that we have some supplies, knowing what we’re gonna use them, we’re gonna tie them at different points. When we’re talking about the maintenance, let’s go over the first thing you need to do every day, and that is technically clearing off and cleaning the machine. Mm-hmm. So it’s gonna be making a mess. And if we don’t clear off that mess over time, all that sawdust is gonna compact into the mechanical areas, which can cause problems. And so we just need to make sure that we clear off the machine at the end of the day, our dust collection is going to help prevent that, but it’s not going to stop it indefinitely for long periods of time. So if we stay on top of cleaning the system, we’ll be good to go. I have found there’s really two main ways of doing that. You can either use a vacuum suction or a blower depending on what you like. So you can get a, um, air pressure or handheld blower, whatever you’d like. Um, I even have a dust collection dropped here and with a flexible hose to suck off the table in the machine if necessary. Um, but blowing off or sucking off the debris, uh, makes it go a long way on. Again, longevity. Okay. So that’ll be the first step that you need to do with the machine. Just clear it off every single day. After we’ve done that, now we can go on to the two other procedures that we need to maintain for daily maintenance. Alright. So the first thing in daily maintenance is taking care of everything that is tied to your spindle. And we already have that built right into the spindle controller. We do a spindle warmup every single time. Right. And we talked about how critical it is to make sure the temperature of those bearings are correct, uh, or else it can damage the raceways and, and decrease the lifespan of the bearings. So that’s already built right into the controller. However, our tool holders will need to maintain those as we use them from day to day. Mm-hmm. Um, even from, from day one, if you get a brand new tool holder, you know, it comes in, its its own case and container, um, you want to immediately maintain it. Okay. So if we take this out, this is gonna have a layer of grease and oil on here. Mm-hmm. And we need to clean all that off and apply, uh, a first protected coating. I’m gonna show how that’s done actually when we get to our weekly maintenance mm-hmm. Um, with the dry grease spray. Okay. Okay. Um, but with that, you again, from brand new tools, you wanna start maintaining them or else again, the rust and contamination can creep up on us. So, uh, for used tool holders, you know, things that we already have cutters involved, uh, we already went through the process of taking tools in and out here, right? Mm-hmm. Um, but the rule is every time we’re, we’re switching out a cutter”
5:40-6:39: “Is we always clean the entire mechanism. Mm-hmm. ’cause we don’t know how long that’s been in the tool holder and you know how gummed up this is. Plus we wanna have the opportunity of cleaning all those surfaces and applying those, um, those coatings as protected, uh, for longevity purposes. So we can take our, call it out, we can use air pressure or a scrub brush, you know, soft wire brush or even just a toothbrush works fine too. Um, and we’re gonna blow and get all the debris outta there. But we also, again, always apply this Dyna Glide dry wax lubricant spray. And this will help, um, dissipate the heat that builds up in, um, as this is being used. But it also helps, um, reduce again, the buildup of rust and contamination over time. Okay. So that’s why we apply it twofold. We get two things out of this,”
6:45-12:06: “Wipe down the inside and wipe down the collar. Okay. So every time we’re switching out a cutter, we’re always applying that maintenance regardless of when that takes place. Right. Right. Now, eventually certain things are gonna go bad. Mm-hmm. Right. Um, when do you know if a call it goes bad? When do you know if a call it nut or a tool holder goes bad? Let’s kind of, um, point out a few things you need to keep an eye on so that if it does, you don’t want to keep using it. ’cause it can damage other components in the machine. Okay. Okay. So that’s a simple maintenance of just applying some dyna glide to those surfaces on a daily basis. Um, however, let’s start with the collet. Okay. So the collet, um, this can go bad simply because it’s a still surface if it rusts out too much. Mm-hmm. So if you find that you have a, um, a some rust on here, yes, you can get some scotch bright, maybe some wd and do your best to put some elbow grease into it and scrub it away. But it’s almost impossible to remove all the rust. Yeah. It’ll always come back. Once it’s started, it will always come back. So if you find this is too far gone rust wise, um, I chuck the Colette because that can transfer to your tool holders. Mm-hmm. Okay. And other surfaces like the shafts and, and even things of your tooling. So, um, if this is rusted out, then yeah, definitely chuck it away. And that’s usually common for most surfaces. Even tool holders, if you find too much rust on the cones or surfaces, you don’t want that transferring to the inside of your spindle. Mm-hmm. So we’re going to clean it, obviously the best we can, but if it’s too far gone, we chuck the tool holder, we get a new one. Okay. Okay. Um, the, call it nuts. I’ve never really had an issue, at least with most call it nuts of rusting out because they have these protected coatings on them. Mm-hmm. And so they don’t, they don’t run into that type of risk. Um, but still check them just to make sure you, you would follow the same rule of thumb. If it did rust out, you’d want to chuck it. Now other things that can um, cause this to wear out is as this is being used and, you know, being pressed and clamped into place over time it can, it can, uh, form an actual physical change in the steel. Okay. Just being used so much. And here you’ll actually see on the top ridge if, if one starts showing up, there’s a, there’s not one here on this call it, um, but you’ll be able to feel it and see it if there’s a physical indent starting to take place once you notice that it’s time to chuck this. Okay. Okay. It’s just being worn out too much, too long and we need to replace it with a new one. Um, the other one is sometimes the, the ring here that, uh, makes it so it locks directly into our, call it nut, this ridge and edge can wear out. So if you press your, your call it and call it nut together and then you go to shake it upside down, but it falls out easily. Right. It’s not locking together then what’s wearing out the collet or the call it nut, right? Yeah. Um, and so if you go grab another type of collet or just, um, a few more collets and test it, if none are falling out but one mm-hmm. Then the collet is going bad. But if you have multiple collets are falling out, your collet nut ring probably inside has either broken or worn out too much and it’s not holding the collets in place, um, secure enough to make it sure that we can, you know, use them correctly. Okay. So that’s how you can tell if the collet now has gone bad as well, is just seeing if you can do the upside down shake test if your, if your parts are falling up. Falling apart. Okay. The other one I have seen is if, if this was, uh, if you tightened a cutter in here. Okay. And there could be a couple reasons perhaps the tool wasn’t inserted, um, in far enough. Um, perhaps it was, um, not assembled correctly. So for example, if you just slap this in here and then try to tighten that in here, that’s a, we don’t want to do that. That’s a, um, that can cause a lot of problems. And so if you assemble it incorrectly or it didn’t put the cutter in right, or it didn’t put enough tension on the tooling when you’re tightening it up mm-hmm. The cutter can technically spin inside of that Colette and once it starts doing that, it, it won’t stop doing that. Okay. And the visual indicator to know if that’s happening is if you look at the, the top face of your collarette, if it starts to turn black mm-hmm. Or the inside of your collarette where it’s making contact with the shaft, if that’s starting to turn black, it’s absorbing all that heat from the shaft spinning inside of that collarette itself. Mm-hmm. Okay. So if you see any discoloration starting to happen, it’s time to, um, again, chuck that, call it, get a new one because a cutter has started rotating inside of it and that will not, that won’t stop once it started. Okay. That’s why we give clean surfaces. So we have maximum friction, you know, when we’re actually clamping down on our cutters. Okay. So that’s our, our call. Its just maintaining that with Dyna Glide every single day, checking for rust, um, and making sure we’re, we’re seeing if there’s anything that’s wearing out over time. Um, with the call it nut, we did, uh, mention the ring on the inside can wear out. Um, and the other one is if the threads are having a hard time going on and off. Okay. And that could be either the threads of the collet nut could start wearing out or the threads of the tool holder could start wearing out. Mm-hmm. Again, you’d have to, um, check it, compare it to other tool holders to see if this one collet is bad or if it’s just the tool holder that’s bad. Or maybe it’s both together, you don’t know. Mm-hmm. But you have to just do some comparisons with other tool holders and other, call it nuts”
Weekly Maintenance Procedures (12:06-28:15)
12:04-24:56: “with other tool holders and other, call it nuts to find out if the threading is bad. If it is, um, again, time to chuck it if, if those things are wearing out. Okay. So as we are, uh, assembling and disassembling our tool holders is the perfect opportunity to just be aware of these things so that we can again, uh, make sure that the machine stays pristine. Specifically our tooling on our tool holders that go up into the spindle itself. Mm-hmm. Okay. So that’s our call it and call it nut the tool holder itself. Okay. Now the tool holder, we’re, we’re cleaning this right? The inside surface, the outer surface is here with that Dyna Glide spray, making sure it stays clean. Mm-hmm. Um, the outer surface though, this here. Okay. So on the tool holder, again, this one looks like it’s, uh, already starting to have close to too much buildup here. I could clean this and get, get rid of some of it, but not all of it. Um, so this is about time, um, this tool holder has been worn out too much and I probably need to replace it with a new one. Mm-hmm. Um, but we need to keep this cone as clean as possible. ’cause again, that’s what’s going up into our, our spindle. Yeah. So every single day I’m going to, um, wipe this down, check for any rust contamination clean if possible. Um, and the only thing we put on this outside surface mm-hmm. Because it’s going up into the spindle, is that Teflon spray. Okay. And that’s part of our weekly maintenance and we’ll get into that and show how that, how we apply that and what we have to do in order to wait. Um, so that this is done properly. But yeah, that’s, that’s all that needs to take place on the tool holder is you’re checking the cone. Make sure the inside is all clean with Dyna Glide, but we don’t put, we don’t put Dyna glide on the outer cone area. Okay. Or typically not. Okay. If you do try to wipe off all the excess, okay. Mm-hmm. And then, um, we, we should be Okay. The other thing I like to check whenever I’m assembling tool holders, at least for the first time, ’cause it, uh, it can come loose over time is that your pole stud here, um, you wanna make sure that’s tight to the top of the tool holder. Mm-hmm. Um, ’cause if that’s coming loose and your tool holder is now loose in that spindle, it’s gonna cause lots of damage. Um, so I like to make sure that these pole studs are tight, they’re threaded directly into the end of our tool holders. Um, you can check that occasionally, but I’ve only had to really tighten it up once and then I’ve never had them come loose afterwards. All right. Okay. Um, so that is our tool holder. Okay. So that then maintenance we’re gonna be doing every single day again by cleaning, wiping off surfaces, having a chance to check if anything is, um, wearing out. Um, and that will take care of our, call it, our call it nut and our tool holder. All right. Okay. And there we have it. Now the second part of maintenance is the actual cutters for your daily maintenance. Mm-hmm. Um, so these are, is what’s gonna be generating the most heat. ’cause it’s making, you know, contact and friction with the material it’s cutting. Yeah. Um, so what can we do to prolong the life of our tooling? And there’s a couple of steps, a couple of things that we can do. So lemme pull out a few supplies. For example, we have our, our rubbing alcohol, right. The 99% isopropyl rubbing alcohol and there’s, there’s specific product out there to get rid of what’s called the pitch. Yeah. The pitch is the, um, it’s kinda like the sap or glue or anything else that kind of bonds to the surface of the, of the cutter as it’s cutting. Um, and it becomes really hard and it helps build up heat and dulls the cutter even faster. Mm-hmm. Okay. So if we can remove that pitch, um, and you make this as part of your daily maintenance, if you can, then this cutter’s gonna last longer. Okay. So there’s, there’s dedicated pitch remo removal products, but I found this to be on one of the simplest solutions. I just pour some of this rubbing alcohol into a, an air sealed Tupperware, and then I’ll pour high enough to where I can just simply soak the cutter in the rubbing alcohol for about 10 or 15 minutes. Okay. And that tends to soften the pitch enough to where I can just wipe it off with a towel. Okay. Okay. Um, and so we can just let that sit for 10 or 15 minutes and we can come back and again, get rid of the, the pitch buildup that’s on the edge of that tool. Now what else can we do to the cutter to prolong the life? Now there’s two types of cutters. There are cutters that have a big flat edge of carbide, and then there’s cutters that have spiral edge of carbide, right? Mm-hmm. So these are the two different types. You have a big flat edge of carbide and you have a, a spiral cutter itself, right? And each has their place. You’re gonna find a lot of custom shape kind of molding and profile cutters with this style, like from magnate. Whereas if you’re getting into, um, standard just end mills and ball cutters, you’re gonna find a lot of spiral end mills, okay? Mm-hmm. Um, down spiral up spiral compression cutters. Um, regardless they’re, they have their, their own time and place for those types of cutters. But how do we maintain those cutters? So beyond moving, removing the pitch, um, there’s one extra thing I can do with our flat carbide tooling that I can’t do here with the spiral carbide. Mm-hmm. And that is using a wet diamond stone to hone and just put a nice keen edge back on that carbide. Okay. So after we have removed the, the pitch Okay. From, you know, by soaking it in the rubbing alcohol, we can take this and you can apply lubrication to here, um, if you wish. Mm-hmm. They, um, they, they say you can do it with or without lubrication. Um, you can do this with, with water oil, dyna glide, really whatever you want. I’m just gonna do this one dry for this, this demonstration. But you take the carbide and make sure it’s fits perfectly flat to that edge. Mm-hmm. Then you just count strokes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, and then you rotate to the next blade and just repeat that to make sure it sits flat. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Okay. You can start to see the, again, micro buildup mm-hmm. Of just the carbide edge. Just being again, a nice keen edge back on that face and it doesn’t change the parameters of the, of the cutter enough to where it’s something we have to worry about, you know, updating our tool library. Mm-hmm. This is again, just making sure that the edge can stay longer. So that is our wet diamond stone that we can provide for the flat blade cutters, but not the spiral cutters. If the spiral cutters are getting too dull, the, the, uh, typical way is that you can send ’em back into, um, tool suppliers or even cutting sharpening services. Mm-hmm. Um, but it changes the parameters of the tool. And so you’d have to update your tool library in your software, uh, so that the program accommodates for that different cutter diameter. Okay. Okay. Um, so that’s the disadvantage of this A lot of the time, depending on I guess how much you spent on the cutter Yeah. It’s usually as much to ship it back, get the re get the sharpening done and, and shipping it back to yourself costs as much as just buying a new cutter. Yeah. And so most people usually just buy new cutters instead of res sharpening these. But again, it just depends on how much you spent mm-hmm. On that tool originally. So that’s one thing that we can do to the edges of our, our carbide beyond, um, removing the pitch. The last thing that we can do is we can actually use the Dyna Glide spray. So this has a micro compound that bonds to metallic surfaces. Yeah. And these guys claim that it will actually double the life of your tooling. Um, and I, I don’t know if that’s a hundred percent true, but I have noticed a difference mm-hmm. If I put this on cutters brand new and then cut and then not on cutters that are brand new, the ones that do have Dyna Glide on them last longer. Okay. Because of that micro compound that, uh, bonds to the surface, it helps dissipate heat even better and heat is the killer of all things sharp. Okay. Okay. So if we can keep things, um, sharper longer, we’re gonna be able to obviously, um, have better lifespan with our, with our machine. Mm-hmm. So Dyna Glide, so afterwards we can spray this right on to those surfaces. Same thing with the spiral carbide. I can just put a nice thin coat on though, and that will dry in about 30 to 45 seconds. It’s just a dry wax lubricant spray. And these are now ready to use for next time, um, again, prolonging the life of our tooling. All right. Okay. So that’s part of our daily maintenance and next we’re gonna move on to weekly maintenance. Okay. Okay. The first thing that I like to do that I mentioned in the daily maintenance is to make sure that our tool holders specifically the cones are protected from day one, right? Mm-hmm. Because that’s the surface that’s gonna go up into our, our tool holder, I’m sorry, our spindle. And so we wanna make sure that this stays as clean and resilient as possible for as long as possible. Mm-hmm. Now, this product was recommended to us by the spindle manufacturers. Uh, they don’t want anything blown or pushed up into the spindle head whatsoever. Yeah. Um, but they did say we can put the dry wa not the dry wax, but the, um, dry grease spray this Teflon spray directly onto the surface of the cone of the tool holders. And that will, again, keep things clean and again prolong the life of everything that we need to use pertaining to items that go up into the spindle itself. Okay. Okay. Uh, so to use this even from brand new tool holders to even, um, current tool holders that I’m using about once a week I’ll do this and I just take it and I spray it on the outside cone surface. You can spray it all over the tool holder if you wish. Mm-hmm. Now there’s nothing wrong with that. The, the thing about this spray though is they say that it will be dry enough to handle in about 10 minutes. Mm-hmm. Um, but it’ll take 24 hours to fully cure before you can actually use it, put it under stress. Okay. Okay. Um, so if you’re gonna do this, make sure you’re not gonna use that tool holder this day. So we’re just gonna clean these surfaces again, make sure this tool holder’s nice and clean to begin with. So yeah. Before I, before we do this, I guess Mason just pointed out that this does have a few spots here that we can clean off or attempt to, to scrub off. So if I just grab some scotch brights or steel wool here, finer the grade, the better. And I’m just gonna put some WD directly onto the Scotch Bright and then we’re gonna do our best to kind of scrub that away. So with the tool holders now maintained, um, we can do one thing to the spindle about once a week. Okay. Okay. Uh, and that is simply wiping down the interior of the spindle head where the tool holders go in. Mm-hmm. But do it with a clean rag that hasn’t been used before. Again, we don’t wanna spray or apply anything up into those mechanisms. That’s, again, those are critical, we don’t want those to rust out over time. And you may notice in here that when the machine is turned on, it actually has a slow hissing of air. Mm-hmm. And what’s happening is when there’s no no tool holder in here, it’s actually forcing about five CFM of air through the nozzle of the spindle to help prevent any particles or anything coming up into the spindle itself. Okay. Okay. Uh, so it, it helps prevent that. But again, we wanna make sure, so I’m gonna take this and simply wipe inside, okay. Get all that clean and you can see I just have a little bit of dust residue there just from, again, a week or so. And I like to do that about once a week just to make sure it’s part of the weekly maintenance. Alright. The next thing on weekly maintenance is everything pertaining to the travel of the machine. So it’s the linear rails that drive the X, the y, and the Z axis. We want to maintain those two different ways. One, we want to check and make sure those aren’t rusting out over time. Okay. So we’re going to apply, um, products to those surfaces to make sure they’re not gonna rust out. And then two, we’re gonna lubricate the bearings so that again, that runs nice and smooth, as clean as possible for as long as possible. Okay. So those would be the two stages we’re gonna do next. First, let’s show how to check and simply maintain and apply the Dyna Glide spray to those, um, profile rails. Okay. So we got some Diamond Glide and again, just a rag that we can use. And once a week I like to come and clean and wipe off the profile rails. Now there’s gonna be six of them on the machine, two per axis. Okay. So here on the Y axis, you got one here on the top, but you also have one here on the bottom on the X axis. There’s one here on the front side where you’re standing and there’s gonna be one here on the backside going down the length of the machine. Mm-hmm. And on the Z axis there’s gonna be two verticals, um, going in the Z axis. I’ll show you, um, how I get access to those, um, in just a second. Okay. But what I like to do is I’ll spray some, well, I like to wipe these off first. Mm-hmm. You can see that over time it can get some debris and gunk and different stuff on here as you’re just using it, right? Mm-hmm. And so if we wipe that off, make sure she’s nice and clean, there we go. Then I’ll spray the Dyna Glide directly onto the surface.”
25:02-28:15: “Okay. And that’s all it takes now that you could technically wipe it on, you could spray it on the rag and wipe it on to apply it instead of, uh, directly on, because this is a dry wax lubricant. It’s not going to attract the dust like a grease or an oil would do. Mm-hmm. Okay. But again, that helps but dissipate heat, it helps, um, fighting off rust and, and, and buildup and contamination that can happen to those surfaces. So we’re gonna do that once a week and it, that will even stay up with the harshest conditions. Like if you have high humidity levels, you’re on the coastline islands anywhere next to the equator, um, this maintenance schedule once a week has stayed up even with those harsher conditions just fine. Okay. Okay. So I’m gonna repeat that for all six rails. Mm-hmm. Um, when the machine’s in the way, obviously we need to move it out of the way and then repeat that for this side. So I would wipe this section down, make sure it’s nice and clean, and then again finish applying that to that surface. All right? Okay. So, um, once I’ve done that to all six rails, the z well at least to the, the four long rails, the Z axis is the one that’s a little harder to get to instead of spraying it directly on because it’s kind of tucked into the gantry. Mm-hmm. Um, I like to apply it on with just a rack. Okay? Okay. Now the way I do this is I’ll bring it to the left side of the machine or towards the operator all the way. And that way I have full stroke in the Z axis without hitting anything. Mm-hmm. Okay. So if I bring this down and the Z axis, okay, you can see we now have access to the top half of the rails. Yeah. Okay. ’cause we’re able to shift it all the way down. So I can now wipe these down and uh, again, apply the Dyna Glide, make sure these are nice and clean. Okay. And here, technically these guys I can actually get access to direct spray on both sides there and that side right there and that side right there. Alright. Okay. Um, the ones underneath, it’s just the opposite. We’re gonna lift it straight up And now we’re gonna get access to the bottoms here. They got the brushes kind of in the way. So this one I usually just wipe it on with a rag instead of spraying it directly on. But you would just repeat that process for those two as well. All right. Okay. So that is again, preventing any rust or contamination from happening with the machine over time. Um, and once you’ve done that to all six profile rails, we do that once a week. You’re good to go. Now the last one that we need to do as a weekly maintenance is we need to lubricate our bearings. Mm-hmm. Uh, there are 13 ERT fittings that we need to grease every single week. So if we grab our grease gun, so this grease gun, and obviously you can use any type of grease gun you want, this one’s a lock and lube, I liked it because again, it had this locking tip to it.”
Long-Term Maintenance (28:15-34:29)
28:13-29:55: “because again, it had this locking tip to it. Mm-hmm. Made it really easy to, um, apply grease to our ERT fittings. So there are gonna be four bearings per access. So here this is the X axis, right? Mm-hmm. So there’s a bearing here on this edge and there’s a bearing on the opposite edge of that gantry. And you can actually see the ERT fitting is right here. It’s being blocked by that plate. So if we move the machine down, now we have access to the ERT fitting right here on the end. Alright? Okay. So it’s as simple as walking this on and then you just give it one to two pumps Per week. Okay? Okay. If you start pumping and it’s starting to spew out because it’s too full mm-hmm. Uh, usually it’s what happens even after one pump. Okay? ’cause we fill these completely full when we ship them from the factory. And so if customers are on top of this every single week, it should only be about one pump a week. Um, but if you haven’t done it for, again, a long period of time, you may have to fill that up with more, with more grease. If you’ve gone too long, eventually the, the bearing will go dry and then it will ruin the bearing. ’cause it won’t be able to again, keep things lubricated and the temperature down during standard operations. So that’s why we keep on top of that by doing this once a week. So there’s two on the X over here, there’s the Y axis, right? So here’s the ERT fitting for the Y and there’s another one directly below tied to the rail right here. Mm-hmm. So there’s these two, that means there’s the two opposite on the other side. Mm-hmm. And those are again, same thing, just tie it right on. One, two.”
29:59-34:29: “Um, and then you have the Z axis. Now the Z axis, uh, is gonna be again on these profiles right here. So there’s the top Z axis, here’s the bottom Z axis. Mm-hmm. So those two, and if you need to clean off those ERT fittings before attaching the, uh, the the grease gun mm-hmm. Don’t want to accidentally put in any debris or dust or anything Yeah. You know, through those valves. So, uh, clean off those surfaces beforehand. The 13th one. ’cause if you go through all four, you’ve gone four in the X four in the Y four in the Z, we’ve got 12, the 13th is right here. Okay. And that’s gonna pump directly into the ball screw that drives the Z axis up and down. Okay. So same thing, just attach it right to thater fitting one and two and then I’ll wipe off all the excess. If there’s anything that’s spewing all around, try to wipe off all that excess. ’cause again, that attracts dust and contamination. Mm-hmm. Okay. There we go. The other thing that can happen is after you’ve put in, um, grease into your bearings, if you move your machine, okay, it can, again, if it’s over getting overflowed, it can leave some residue of grease on the profile rails. Mm-hmm. So I like to move the machine off and then re just um, again, wipe those excess grease areas away because again, that can attract dust, right? Mm-hmm. This one actually wasn’t too bad. The Y ais had a little bit extra on there. Z axis. Let’s bring it over here. Well, sorry, not the Z axis. We only for this demonstration, we just did the ball screw, right? Yep. So, um, yeah, just make sure you’re cleaning up the grease mess a um, afterwards if by chance they’ve been over pumped and then you’re good to go. So by doing those two things, you’re lubricating the bearings and then keeping the profile rails clean and protected. Again, this is gonna be able to last as long as possible doing those two things once a week. Alright. If I didn’t have to explain all this, that could all be done in less than 10 minutes. Perfect. Okay. You got any questions for me on that maintenance process for the daily and weekly? Uh, no. It’s a very, very simple process. Yes. Yes it is. Okay. Last one I wanna mention. I call it the, uh, the long-term maintenance. Mm-hmm. And this is the scenario is if the machine is not gonna be used for a week or longer. Okay. Okay. So the weekly maintenance is to keep it again up to speed as you’re using the machine. Mm-hmm. But if you’re not gonna be using the machine for longer than that time, I like to put it into a long-term maintenance. And this is, uh, tied to putting the surfaces that can rust out over time into a state where they won’t rust out. Okay. Okay. So there’s only a few components on the machine that can rust out that is these, uh, linear profile rails. Mm-hmm. Okay. Um, also technically the racks here, those can technically rust out if, if we’re not careful. And then the other ones is the tool holder surfaces. Mm-hmm. Okay. So those three areas on the machine, um, we need to protect for a long term. And the easiest way to do that is to use what we’ve been not using is grease. Yeah. Right. And so you can use grease or oil. I simply use an all purpose white lithium grease. You can get a spray, can a tub, anything you want, however you want to apply it. But you want to apply a thin coat of grease to the, to the six rails and to each tool holder Okay. That you’re not using. ’cause you don’t want those to rust out. Yeah. And then when you come back to use the machine, you’ll need to clean all those surfaces again and reapply the, the Dyna Glide spray, just like it’s the beginning of a, a weekly maintenance. Okay. Okay. You went right back into the routine of your weekly maintenance Right When you come back. Um, that way again, everything will stay pristine for as long as possible. Even if you step away for a week or even a couple months or even years, the grease will be able to, um, protect that for a really, really long time. All right. Okay. Sweet. Well that is maintenance in a nutshell for you guys. I hope this has answered some of your questions about how to maintain and take care of the machine. Um, but again, if you follow these practices and check out the maintenance schedule that we have for you guys, you can download that off of the website@legacywoodworking.com. Uh, again, you’ll be able to have your machines last as literally as long as you need. Um, but yeah, thanks for watching and we will see you guys in the next series where we’re gonna start actually making”
Conclusion and Next Steps (34:29-34:56)
34:28-34:31: “where we’re gonna start actually making projects, onboarding projects. So we’ll see you then.”
