Elwood1968
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2017
For those familiar with these lathes, you'll know that the factory manual is often lacking in specifics. For example, there are tapered roller bearings on the "A" (spindle), "B", "D" (clutch), and driven pulley input shafts in the headstock. The manual gives some guidance on the axial endplay setup for the spindle shaft, but no measurements (just a touchy-feely guidance). The other shafts have no instructions at all, other than "assembly is the reverse of disassembly".
Since I removed all of the shafts except for the spindle, and I'm now reassembling the headstock with all new bearings, I'd like to get the endplays correct and avoid a repeat of this repair job.
So, does anyone have suggestions or practical experience with a good axial endplay cold setup for these bearings? I'm leaning towards something between 0.002" and 0.004" cold.
Since I removed all of the shafts except for the spindle, and I'm now reassembling the headstock with all new bearings, I'd like to get the endplays correct and avoid a repeat of this repair job.
So, does anyone have suggestions or practical experience with a good axial endplay cold setup for these bearings? I'm leaning towards something between 0.002" and 0.004" cold.