T Slot fillers

[Frank S]

I used to own an older Dutch made Gromatic lathe with T slots in the carriage even though teh lathe at the time was more than 40 years old it still had 3 of the 4 factory ruber slot fillers in it over the years long before I got it the lathe had been repainted numerous times. I thought for a while that it had only the 1 "T" slot until 1 day I was scraping it down for a refurbishment and repaint when I discovered the rubber fillers. Once removed being so old and hardened they were impossible to return to the slots so I just left them out.
I would think that UHMW would be about as water or solvent neutral as just about any material you could use. As for wood fillers something made out of Maple black walnut or mahogany or possibly ash soaked in tongue oil and dried might do the trick. But Teak might the a better choice all would look really nice as well