Billy Boy
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2005
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
So, I've got my new wire/tubing bender more or less done, and I've pressed my sintered bronze plain bearing in place. They are held in place with a press fit as the holes are reamed to .749 and the od on the bushings was .7505.
Now when I try to slide my .625 shaft into place, there is interferance. I can press the shaft through the bronze bearings with no trouble, but I am unable to spin the shaft if i do this... even when I slip a sprocket/key over the end and grab the thing with a gloved hand, the shaft won't budge.
I've read alot recently about how acurate plain bronze bearings can be, so I'm wondering what to do here.
I figure the easiest thing would be to simply get a .625 reamer and size it up, but I just want to make sure that their isn't some other (better) approach.
Could I make a reamer by simply form realiving my shaft?
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Now when I try to slide my .625 shaft into place, there is interferance. I can press the shaft through the bronze bearings with no trouble, but I am unable to spin the shaft if i do this... even when I slip a sprocket/key over the end and grab the thing with a gloved hand, the shaft won't budge.
I've read alot recently about how acurate plain bronze bearings can be, so I'm wondering what to do here.
I figure the easiest thing would be to simply get a .625 reamer and size it up, but I just want to make sure that their isn't some other (better) approach.
Could I make a reamer by simply form realiving my shaft?
B