Nerdlinger
Stainless
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2013
- Location
- Chicago, IL
Hi Everyone,
Our newest S700 High-Torque Speedio (less than two years old) all of a sudden started making a rattling/tapping noise reminiscent of baseball cards in bicycle wheel spokes. The faster the spindle rotated the louder the noise would get. I tried rotating the spindle by hand and it moved freely until it got stuck in the same spot when rotating it both CW and CCW. M3 in MDI showed no load on the spindle. Yamazen had no interest in trying to repair it and just wanted to replace the spindle, which is what we did and everything is running fine now. I would like to get this thing repaired to keep as a back up. However, with it out of the machine it spins just fine (from what I can tell.) This small silver ring the red arrow is pointing to in the pic wiggles a little bit and if I hold it I then feel resistance when spinning the rest of the bearing.
Is it possible for it to rotate freely when it is out of the machine but lock up once it is installed? I would hate for a repair guy to be like, "hmmm, looks okay to me!" but at the same time I assume they would probably do more to diagnose than just spin it by hand.
Has anyone had this problem with a young Speedio before? What would cause a bearing to go like that? I'm not sure we have ever had to have a spindle replaced for rattly bearings before...
Thank you!
Our newest S700 High-Torque Speedio (less than two years old) all of a sudden started making a rattling/tapping noise reminiscent of baseball cards in bicycle wheel spokes. The faster the spindle rotated the louder the noise would get. I tried rotating the spindle by hand and it moved freely until it got stuck in the same spot when rotating it both CW and CCW. M3 in MDI showed no load on the spindle. Yamazen had no interest in trying to repair it and just wanted to replace the spindle, which is what we did and everything is running fine now. I would like to get this thing repaired to keep as a back up. However, with it out of the machine it spins just fine (from what I can tell.) This small silver ring the red arrow is pointing to in the pic wiggles a little bit and if I hold it I then feel resistance when spinning the rest of the bearing.
Is it possible for it to rotate freely when it is out of the machine but lock up once it is installed? I would hate for a repair guy to be like, "hmmm, looks okay to me!" but at the same time I assume they would probably do more to diagnose than just spin it by hand.
Has anyone had this problem with a young Speedio before? What would cause a bearing to go like that? I'm not sure we have ever had to have a spindle replaced for rattly bearings before...
Thank you!