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Mmachtool replied to the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing.Has any one here ever welcomed you? Might be difficult in these times with the Ukraine situation. But if you are here babbling about...
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Mmachtool replied to the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing.Fairly certain they are in a DF face to face arrangment. That's the only way they can work, being locked onto the spindle and internally...
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Mmachtool reacted to Garwood's post in the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing with
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Nothing as it relates to spindles, but before Covid took the owner of the local electric motor rewind shop out, I used to sleeve... -
Mmachtool replied to the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing.I'm fairly certain my passion for solving particular problems is as welcome here as it is at the machinist forum. We could take a vote...
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Mmachtool replied to the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing.I have no fucking idea who or what a Dualkit is / was. Him. Her / they / them. Did they have a spindle I was involved in? If you have...
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Mmachtool replied to the thread Drill press spindle bearings what order.Of course the thrust bearings go in first, up against the thrust faces in the housing. To do it arse about your only pressing your...
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Mmachtool replied to the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing.My Australian associate has been online for all of 3 hours now. Knows all about fixing Boeing, Putin, Ukraine but not one word here...
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Mmachtool replied to the thread Outsourcing to India-The new trend.Care to provide just one, or any example of a US corporation moving completly from China to India. You said "HAD" moved. That would be...
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Mmachtool replied to the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing.I'd note my Learned Colleague hasn't been here once since this got techinal. Yet he is over in Manufacturing in America & Europe...
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Mmachtool replied to the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing.You do know how we Abbreviate every thing down here, Aluminium is called Ali. This Thermite and the John K. All I can come up with is a...
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Mmachtool replied to the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing.I think what you are seeing if perfectly normal. At the fit its specified at, it must be free to axially float. Were they P4Y's you...
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Mmachtool replied to the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing.Its beyond a joke trying to have a true techical conversation here. Bearing sizes of 0 - 8 um, and housing sizes of plus / minus...
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Mmachtool replied to the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing.He was a student of the universe.
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Mmachtool replied to the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing.No its exactly how it should react when its full of grease. Your thinking 3600 rpm or what ever pole motor your thinking of. 3,600 was...
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Mmachtool replied to the thread Cat40 spindle rebuild: Thoughts on floating bearings outer races spinning in housing.He further went on to report that he could detect 0.0002" of deflection. Thats 2 ten thouandths of an inch deflection. Appox 5 microns...