Yes that youtube video seems to be very helpful. I've been watching it for
the last few days.

Well we will give it a try then and see how it pans out.

Thanks all

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:03 PM Leonardo Marsaglia <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I've never took apart the ones in the Mazak (Wich I asked for quotation
> once)but I disassembled other lathes that were similar and it's not that
> much of a pain. Surely you must make some tooling sometimes to get things
> done right but nothing else.
>
> 5.000 to 7.000 sounds about what they would charge for it. From what I
> remember the tricky part is to guarantee a free dust and grit assembly.
> They claimed to have a dust controlled environment much like a
> semiconductor factory but I suspect part of that is marketing.
>
> One common approach for big lathes is two double row roller bearings with a
> thrust bearing for the axial load.
>
> Leonardo Marsaglia
>
> El mié., 27 may. 2020 14:51, Jon Elson <[email protected]> escribió:
>
> > On 05/27/2020 12:18 PM, Curtis Dutton wrote:
> > > So after finishing the retrofit of the old Miyano gang lathe the
> spindle
> > > bearings are shot. You can grab the spindle nose and push it side to
> side
> > > about .0005" to .001". The cut quality is also fairly bad. Just
> cutting a
> > > spring pass on an aluminum bar shows a lot of chatter like marks.
> > >
> > > I can also measure a .0005" to .001"  axial play by pushing on the face
> > or
> > > the collet closer of the spindle. Not to mention there is roughness and
> > > fairly loud bearing noise while running.
> > >
> > > I expected this but I'm looking for someone that can refurbish it or
> any
> > > advice from others that have done this before. I haven't ever sent
> > anything
> > > out to be rebuilt so I'm ignorant on the process.
> > > One online quote I received was 4500 to 6500. Is that reasonable? Does
> > > anyone know of someone or have pointers? I'm not opposed to trying to
> do
> > it
> > > myself but I know it would be very challenging to get it right. I'm
> sure
> > > I'd need to order 2 sets of bearings... One for the first attempt and
> one
> > > to get it right!
> > >
> > Well, it may not be that tricky.  It is probably just a pair
> > of angular contact precision ball bearings,
> > and may have some type of spacer to get the preload right.
> > Do you have any drawings of the
> > headstock?  That might give some idea of how the spindle is
> > assembled.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
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