On 3/5/23 12:59, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote:
By the way, one subtle thing I noticed too that leads me to the bearings as
a problem.
Normally when the spindle is off and the dust removal vacuum system is
working, the spindle tends to spin by itself because of the vacuum action
on the impeller I ins
By the way, the spindle also is ready for ATC so it has a pneumatic puller.
I'm going to take a look at that today because when you activate the
release of the tool the spindle gets blocked until you have the puller
working again. I'm suspecting maybe that's causing extra friction because
it's not
By the way, one subtle thing I noticed too that leads me to the bearings as
a problem.
Normally when the spindle is off and the dust removal vacuum system is
working, the spindle tends to spin by itself because of the vacuum action
on the impeller I installed. This almost never happened yesterday.
Hi Gregg,
Insulating the whole place and getting it to cool would be indeed cool lol.
But the problem is we already had hot days and this didn't happen.
Yesterday was one of the worst days but it looks like something else.
I was thinking about checking the spindle rotation at slow speed for a few
You could try a micro compressor refrigeration system to cool the air that the
spindle cooling fan takes in.
Here's a unit for $149.78 USD. Have to supply your own evaporator coil.
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804487578057.html
This one is less compact but includes a cooling coil.
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