gappmast
Cast Iron
- Joined
- May 13, 2007
- Location
- California
These are good thoughts...I'm of a mind to make up a holding fixture and do 2 bearings at a time. The fixture would, perhaps, separate the two bearings an inch or so so you'd get a much "deeper" hole to work with. I was also thinking of maybe doing it in the drill press with the fixture attached to the table.
This project has been going on for 10 years and is nowhere near completed. I work on it almost every day but I'm both slow and learning as I go (having no prior metal working experience). I'll bet at least half that time was spent fixing the machines and making mistakes. Then there are the jobs that take a week to make the fixtures and an hour to do the job. No one could make a living doing it this way...
Be careful with a drill press. When the drive source, drill press, and the part being honed are both held ridged you need two universal joints to hold geometry. One universal joint will allow the hone head to knuckle and mess with your geometry, no matter how good you think your alignment is. The hand hone, you are talking about using, has one universal joint and it is meant to be held by the operator. The operator is not ridged and becomes the second Universal joint.
The hand hones you are talking about using were never meant for this type of work you would be better off taking it to someone who has a pedestal hone,rod hone as most people call them.