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  Derek Conway July 22, 2013 at 4:35pm

  Its not normal, I've had mine for 5 years and never seen anything come out that hole.
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  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk July 22, 2013 at 6:24pm

  It looks to me that you may have been over greasing the machine. It shouldn't have travelled that far up the shaft, unless you have been doing a awful lot of vertical cutting. How often are you greasing up the head ?. Also, are you storing the machine veritcaly or horizontal, both when in the van and at your base / unit ?
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  Anthony Toop July 22, 2013 at 8:45pm

  I grease the head maybe twice a year, just a small squeeze of the tube each time. The engine and cutter head are stored seperated and both lying horizontal when in transit and storage.
  
  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk said:

  It looks to me that you may have been over greasing the machine. It shouldn't have travelled that far up the shaft, unless you have been doing a awful lot of vertical cutting. How often are you greasing up the head ?. Also, are you storing the machine veritcaly or horizontal, both when in the van and at your base / unit ?
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  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk July 22, 2013 at 9:02pm

  Im assuming that the only grease nipples are on the attachment heads (strimmer, hedge trimmer etc) like "normal" machines ? If your only greasing a couple of times a year. are you only using it a couple of times ?. Machine heads should be greased every week at least if being used daily.
  
  Anthony @ JDC Maintenance said:

  I grease the head maybe twice a year, just a small squeeze of the tube each time. The engine and cutter head are stored seperated and both lying horizontal when in transit and storage.
  
  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk said:

  It looks to me that you may have been over greasing the machine. It shouldn't have travelled that far up the shaft, unless you have been doing a awful lot of vertical cutting. How often are you greasing up the head ?. Also, are you storing the machine veritcaly or horizontal, both when in the van and at your base / unit ?
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  Chris Auld July 22, 2013 at 9:47pm

  I think your meant to grease them every 10 hours of use.
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  Geoff Norfolk July 22, 2013 at 10:25pm

  Maybe its got some sort of religious significance like the tears from the Virgin Mary's statue?
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  Anthony Toop July 23, 2013 at 9:01am

  Its not used daily, maybe twice a week on average and then generally only for short periods of say 20 mins, i have a HS45 that shares the load as well. I always understood that if you greased them to much its as bad as not doing it at all, because if excess cant escape, im assuming it would do this via the blades where they enter the head, then pressure can build up and damage the seal and even the mechanism!
  
  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk said:

  Im assuming that the only grease nipples are on the attachment heads (strimmer, hedge trimmer etc) like "normal" machines ? If your only greasing a couple of times a year. are you only using it a couple of times ?. Machine heads should be greased every week at least if being used daily.
  
  Anthony @ JDC Maintenance said:

  I grease the head maybe twice a year, just a small squeeze of the tube each time. The engine and cutter head are stored seperated and both lying horizontal when in transit and storage.
  
  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk said:

  It looks to me that you may have been over greasing the machine. It shouldn't have travelled that far up the shaft, unless you have been doing a awful lot of vertical cutting. How often are you greasing up the head ?. Also, are you storing the machine veritcaly or horizontal, both when in the van and at your base / unit ?
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  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk July 23, 2013 at 9:33am

  Theres an apperture / space at the base of the blades which allows the grease to "bleed" excess grease. So you cant over grease when greasing using the nipple. That was why I asked how the machine was being stored. As the machine generates a hell of a heat when working the grease becomes soft and runy and thought it must have been running back down the shaft if stored vertically or doing lots of vertical cutting. The only other way if not over greasing it is that the previous owner did, or actually pumped grease into the shaft when it was split from the attachment. Its got to be coming from that end of the machine, its definately not coming from the power unit.
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  Anthony Toop July 23, 2013 at 5:23pm

  Yeh, if anything i under grease it, so definitely not from me. Must be an excessive amount actually trapped in the shaft some how, will just keep mopping it up until it hopefully stops. Why, and how would someone put extra grease into the shaft any way, i thought they were pretty much sealed up?
  
  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk said:

  Theres an apperture / space at the base of the blades which allows the grease to "bleed" excess grease. So you cant over grease when greasing using the nipple. That was why I asked how the machine was being stored. As the machine generates a hell of a heat when working the grease becomes soft and runy and thought it must have been running back down the shaft if stored vertically or doing lots of vertical cutting. The only other way if not over greasing it is that the previous owner did, or actually pumped grease into the shaft when it was split from the attachment. Its got to be coming from that end of the machine, its definately not coming from the power unit.
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  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk July 23, 2013 at 5:57pm

  They may have put it through the same hole its leaking from Anthony, maybe in the belief that the prop shaft needs to be greased ???.
  
  Anthony @ JDC Maintenance said:

  Yeh, if anything i under grease it, so definitely not from me. Must be an excessive amount actually trapped in the shaft some how, will just keep mopping it up until it hopefully stops. Why, and how would someone put extra grease into the shaft any way, i thought they were pretty much sealed up?
  
  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk said:

  Theres an apperture / space at the base of the blades which allows the grease to "bleed" excess grease. So you cant over grease when greasing using the nipple. That was why I asked how the machine was being stored. As the machine generates a hell of a heat when working the grease becomes soft and runy and thought it must have been running back down the shaft if stored vertically or doing lots of vertical cutting. The only other way if not over greasing it is that the previous owner did, or actually pumped grease into the shaft when it was split from the attachment. Its got to be coming from that end of the machine, its definately not coming from the power unit.