Oiling your box
Posted: 27 Nov 2012 18:44
Yesterday evening I frustrated myself endlessly trying to put new oil in my trollie's gearbox.
I don't know if it's just me, but it seems the modern gearbox oil bottles are really badly made. Every time I squeezed the bottle to get the oil out, I got an armfull of oil as the oil squirted past the tube instead of through it, and each time I made a wrong move the tube pulled out of the bottle.
As I was removing the second bottle from the gearbox, the tube pulled out of the bottle and promptly fell into the gearbox.
To retrieve it, I had to pull the drainplug (and thus waste two bottles of oil), and fortunately I then managed to hook it over the hole with a bent piece of bailing wire and could then drag it out with long-nosed pliers, but by that time I had soiled several pairs of underpants with thoughts of having to pull the gearbox...
Anyway, I think that I have found the answer. I stopped by the local model shop on the way home this afternoon, and R150 later I walked away with a hand-crancked pump such as the modelers use to pump nitro fuel into their planes and cars, and a metre of pipe. Upon getting home I then heated a bottle of gearbox oil by putting it in hot water, and the pump pumps it beautifully!
Just thought I'd share the tip.
I don't know if it's just me, but it seems the modern gearbox oil bottles are really badly made. Every time I squeezed the bottle to get the oil out, I got an armfull of oil as the oil squirted past the tube instead of through it, and each time I made a wrong move the tube pulled out of the bottle.
As I was removing the second bottle from the gearbox, the tube pulled out of the bottle and promptly fell into the gearbox.
To retrieve it, I had to pull the drainplug (and thus waste two bottles of oil), and fortunately I then managed to hook it over the hole with a bent piece of bailing wire and could then drag it out with long-nosed pliers, but by that time I had soiled several pairs of underpants with thoughts of having to pull the gearbox...
Anyway, I think that I have found the answer. I stopped by the local model shop on the way home this afternoon, and R150 later I walked away with a hand-crancked pump such as the modelers use to pump nitro fuel into their planes and cars, and a metre of pipe. Upon getting home I then heated a bottle of gearbox oil by putting it in hot water, and the pump pumps it beautifully!
Just thought I'd share the tip.
Watter tipe olie het jy die keer gebruik, weer die Castrol BOT130? Was dit weer tyd gewees om die olie te ruil of het jy geruil vir ander redes?
