I hit NAPA today, but all they had was the permatex version, right green color, not quite as strong as the loctite 680, but no primer, so I had to hit another parts house to find that.
Brought it home, washed it off with the primer, let that dry for 5 minutes like it said to, then annointed the shaft adjacent to the pair of bearings on the polygrooved pulley end of it. Gave it an hour to setup, threw the j6 belt on it and fired it up to run on the table from an elderly CB radio supply left over from that phase of my life. Walk in to get a coffee refill, came back out to be greeted by a somewhat hammering sound, the shaft had walked through that bearing far enough the draw bolts of the 3" pulleys taper hub were now knocking on the heads of the bearing retainer screws. Took it apart again, drove the shaft back to where I wanted it, the Dee needed food, so while at Geno's for sustanance, I walked down 4 doors to TSC to see if they had any 1/2" ID alu tubing I could make trapping spacers from. But all they had was 3/4", alu or steel. Back over in the hardware drawers I found some thin walled 1/2x1/2 nylon sleeves, 2 to the bag. Cutting one of them down to about 5/16" long, it will ride the center race face, spaceing the taper lock hub correctly and should prevent the shaft from walking in that direction. Put it back together, ran ok. Put it back in the lathe and it still runs. I left it making about 200 rpm at the chuck flange for the night. The jackscrew idea works well, maintaining good tension on the new xl timing belt drive. This time I think I have it convinced I'm the boss and its working for ME. With a little better luck than I've had so far, I might even have it cutting threads tomorrow some time. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
