On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:59:26 -0600, you wrote: > The cold chisel trick was the first thing I tried, and when I broke >the cold chisel, I started looking for another way to get it off, The >second thing I tried, was my jury rigged press, but it didn't budge it. >That's when I mounted it in the lathe, and tried cutting it off. > > I DID get it off last night. There was a gear behind the race, and >since it was already damaged, I had a brainfart, and welded a fairly >hefty mount to it, took it back to the farmers shop, and mounted a 6"dia >hydraulic cylinder to the mount. > > I pressed on the end of the shaft, while applying heat with a >rosebud... The Hydraulic pump was straining pretty hard, so I figure I >had well over 60 tons on it when the race popped loose. Of course, >popped doesn't do justice to what happened when the race came off.
> I then brought it back to my shop, cleaned up the journal, welded it >up, and turned it back to dimension. Handed it back to the owner, took >a handful of meds, and passed out. The new parts should be in by 2:00 >this afternoon, so I'll see if I'm a Saint, or Satan soon :) Just thinking aloud - you must have removed bearing outers from a hub or such by running a weld around them. When the weld cools and contracts, bearing falls out of housing. Same thing "may" work for a bearing inner on shaft - make up a loose fitting thick sleeve. Weld between bearing and sleeve and wait till it cools. In theory -- it should expand the bearing... or it might just be a load of bull :) Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
