So a little bigger tap with a little bigger mallet did the job. The front bearing fell apart and is badly worn. Now the seat is stuck inside the headstock and the bearing piece is stuck to the shaft and I have no idea how to get it out. Anyone know how to get a stuck bearing seat out please?
On 2014-11-27 18:13, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > Hi All > I finely got my lathe working and by the third part the spindle bearings > start to seize. Its a brand new BVC25A belt driven lathe. I managed to > pack some grease in the back bearing when I first started with the build > but there is no way to get to the front bearing. > Does anyone know how to remove the spindle shaft in order to look at > what they did with the bearings. I have a feeling the Chinese builder > did not fit thrust bearings anywhere. > I tried the mallet but nothing moved. I dont want to strip the head > stock off if I dont have to as I have a lot of wires, switches and > encoders permanently mounted. > > -- Regards /Groete Marius D. Liebenberg +27 82 698 3251 +27 12 743 6064 QQ 1767394877 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
