tr4252
Plastic
- Joined
- Sep 16, 2011
- Location
- New York, USA
I work for a cryogenic equipment manufacturer. We have mostly CNC machines. In addition, there are a lot of old manual machines, including 2 old Turn-Nados. Today I got a maintenance request to investigate a noise in one of them, and it turned out to be a bad spindle bearing.
I started taking it apart this afternoon, and am proceeding slowly and cautiously, because I'm relatively ignorant and don't want to break anything. We are ill equipped to do this sort of repair, though I did fix the cross feed/longitudinal feed on this machine about 8 years ago with success (I joined Practical Machinist specifically to ask for advice on the job).
My resources are limited to an old owners manual made up of faded and grease stained Xerox copies, and whatever advice I can get from various contacts I have, which to say, not much. I would prefer to ship the headstock to somebody, and let them fix it, but after a few internet searches and phone calls, it looks like that may be a dead end. Meanwhile I'm on my own.
Can anyone give me a little advice on pulling the spindle and replacing the bearings? I would be grateful for any and all help.
Thank you,
TomR
I started taking it apart this afternoon, and am proceeding slowly and cautiously, because I'm relatively ignorant and don't want to break anything. We are ill equipped to do this sort of repair, though I did fix the cross feed/longitudinal feed on this machine about 8 years ago with success (I joined Practical Machinist specifically to ask for advice on the job).
My resources are limited to an old owners manual made up of faded and grease stained Xerox copies, and whatever advice I can get from various contacts I have, which to say, not much. I would prefer to ship the headstock to somebody, and let them fix it, but after a few internet searches and phone calls, it looks like that may be a dead end. Meanwhile I'm on my own.
Can anyone give me a little advice on pulling the spindle and replacing the bearings? I would be grateful for any and all help.
Thank you,
TomR
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