Re-post: TD125 MkI bearing lube followup Q

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This got sort of lost, so I thought I'd re-post:
"Thanks both of you for your help. I just cleaned the bearing as best as I was able to (I used naphtha) and then put some clean Singer oil in it. I noticed a few things, amongst them that the spindle is ever-so-slightly bent :(.
In any case, I've got a question about this whole 'sintered bearing' business: I started with a small amount of oil, but kept adding and eventually got to the point where I was doing the 'overfill and let the excess oil overflow' thing.
What I found rather strange was that there wasn't much overflow--it was more as if the oil was getting absorbed! I filled it about halfway, put the platter on, and when I took the platter off again there was like half the oil I had put in. This actually happened more than once, and there wasn't a leak anywhere that I could notice.
Were the sintered parts actually sopping up the oil? That's pretty wild."

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Topic - Re-post: TD125 MkI bearing lube followup Q - Damián 12:44:51 04/29/07 (1)

A true sintered bearing - unclestu52 14:13:22 04/29/07 (0)

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