Mbusha
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I have searched the forum and Internet fairly thoroughly and cannot find a (US) source for SX3 (Grizzly) spindle bearings. Just a few threads of little help. Anyone know where they might be ordered?
My mill has very few hours but the spindle was always suspiciously noisy. I had carefully followed the breakin procedure but I suspect the preload was incorrectly set.
I needed to ream a .126 hole in stainless for the Liney RV-1 but my reamer did not cut and put some small Z axis load on the spindle. From that point the spindle made a nasty grinding noise. Top thrust bearing I think?
I took everything apart, aside from removing the bearings. I ordered a puller yesterday so that is where I am at. Inside of the quill was very dirty, so not a stellar assembly job by Sieg. The bearings, from what I can see, do not look damaged but they are not pretty either so I'll probable clean everything up, use some decent lube and reassemble. We'll see how that goes.
So, knowing it won't go well, I would really like to order some bearings of better quality. Does anyone know a source?
Ps. I was really hoping to post something helpful to the forum rather then just making comments on everyone threads. Had a neat idea and was taking pictures when this set back happened. I guess I'll get to that later.
My mill has very few hours but the spindle was always suspiciously noisy. I had carefully followed the breakin procedure but I suspect the preload was incorrectly set.
I needed to ream a .126 hole in stainless for the Liney RV-1 but my reamer did not cut and put some small Z axis load on the spindle. From that point the spindle made a nasty grinding noise. Top thrust bearing I think?
I took everything apart, aside from removing the bearings. I ordered a puller yesterday so that is where I am at. Inside of the quill was very dirty, so not a stellar assembly job by Sieg. The bearings, from what I can see, do not look damaged but they are not pretty either so I'll probable clean everything up, use some decent lube and reassemble. We'll see how that goes.
So, knowing it won't go well, I would really like to order some bearings of better quality. Does anyone know a source?
Ps. I was really hoping to post something helpful to the forum rather then just making comments on everyone threads. Had a neat idea and was taking pictures when this set back happened. I guess I'll get to that later.