Thread: K & T 2CH Spindle Bearing?

I noticed the other day that my 2CH has some end play in the spindle bearings. Any thoughts on taking this out?

Paul

It is a taper roller bearing. The adjustment is inside the housing. You need to remove the speed gearbox to access

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Paul, these might help.

Converting to a sendable jpg did not improve the quality, appologies....

Bob

Try reaching the adjustment collar through the breather plate.. I know that is how the 2H horizontal is adjusted.. Mike (Ramsay 1)

Thanks everyone. I was able to print off a copy of your prints Bob.

Paul

I finally got around to look into this matter. Access to two locking collars can be made thru the gearbox vent on the upper right side of machine. The way the thing is setup is to me just plain beautiful. The front collar takes the slack out of the front bearing only & uses only the front wall of the main casting to do so. The second tightens both bearings using a center rib in the casting. What this would do is minamize the problem of the spindle heating up & growing in length & changing bearing play.

Quote: "The way the thing is setup is to me just plain beautiful."

Very well described Paul, and to me, it typifies the intelligent design of K & T* products. It's as if the designers goals were to produce an everlasting machine for their own personal use.
*and contemporary fine machinery of that grandest of era's.

The fearsome and most deadly spector of WWII couldn't beat it out of them and today, most never even catch a whiff of it.

I guess that's the pride in workmanship thing that has died in most modern folks. "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right/well," is soooo yesterday, you'll never see that written into the script for "The Jersey Shore."

The supreme usefulness of the few machines of that era that I've gathered, is rivaled by the joy of having them close to wonder over. They demand that I do better work.

Bob

I have worked on so many of those old machines and I am always amazed at the level of detail that went into them. The guys who built them honestly believed that they had to last 100 years, and they will, my K&Ts are still mint and run beautifully everyday. I have been in almost every US built machine tool and the only machines that are even compareable in quality are Moore and Pratt and Whitney stuff. True works of art. Oh I cant forget Lodge and Shipley and Monarch and American pacemaker and Axelson and Leblond who have I left out? Too bad they are all gone.

Hendey was forgotten.