Worm drive lubrication for table saw
Last night I cut a number of parafin wax candles on my tablesaw. I noticed that the rise and fall mechanism seemed to work more smoothly afterward. On inspection I found a considerable deposit of "candle dust" was deposited on the thread of the worm drive and some of the teeth for raising the arbor and tilting the trunion. I applied some more of the "dust" around the mechanism and worked it in by running the blade up and down and tilting it through its range of movement. It now feels like its running on ball bearings in comparison to before! The nice thing about this lubrication is that it is dry and shouldn't attract sawdust deposits to the mechanism as grease often does.