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making custom ball bearings...?
Hi,
I was wondering if it's possible to make your own bearing channels? I have two applications where mcmastercarr does not have what I need. Are there end mills with semicircular tip profiles to mill channels for balls of that diameter? thanks! -Bernard Arnest |
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Sure there are. I made a 4" dia low speed ball bearing for a project a
few years ago. Used 1/8" balls, and had an inside diameter of 3.25" Be aware that clamping the races in a chuck will distort them, causing uneven drag when finished. I doubt you can make a good, high speed, high load ball bearing on a lathe. JR Dweller ion the cellar Bernard Arnest wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to make your own bearing channels? I have two applications where mcmastercarr does not have what I need. Are there end mills with semicircular tip profiles to mill channels for balls of that diameter? thanks! -Bernard Arnest -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes Doubt yourself, and the real world will eat you alive The world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around me No skeletons in the closet; just decomposing corpses -------------------------------------------------------------- Dependence is Vulnerability: -------------------------------------------------------------- "Open the Pod Bay Doors please, Hal" "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.." |
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making custom ball bearings...?
According to JR North :
Sure there are. I made a 4" dia low speed ball bearing for a project a few years ago. Used 1/8" balls, and had an inside diameter of 3.25" Be aware that clamping the races in a chuck will distort them, causing uneven drag when finished. If you've got two-piece jaws, make some "Pie" jaws to fit on the chuck, and turn them in place to the intended OD of the race. Then, you have support the whole way around. (Better with a 6-jaw chuck to start with, of course.) I doubt you can make a good, high speed, high load ball bearing on a lathe. Agreed -- but you can do better if you use a toolpost grinder with a wheel dressed to the right profile to make that ball race, and grind after turning to just a bit short of the final size. (Actually, you should also harden the steel between the turning operation and the grinding operation. Of course, using a toolpost grinder on a good lathe is always fraught with worry about damage from the abrasive thrown by the grinding operation. Good Luck, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:07:52 -0800, JR North
wrote: Sure there are. I made a 4" dia low speed ball bearing for a project a few years ago. Used 1/8" balls, and had an inside diameter of 3.25" Be aware that clamping the races in a chuck will distort them, causing uneven drag when finished. I doubt you can make a good, high speed, high load ball bearing on a lathe. JR Dweller ion the cellar It can be done with rather good sucess..but you use pot collets rather than jaw type chucks Gunner, who turned out 200 of them a couple weeks ago, in about 4 hours Bernard Arnest wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to make your own bearing channels? I have two applications where mcmastercarr does not have what I need. Are there end mills with semicircular tip profiles to mill channels for balls of that diameter? thanks! -Bernard Arnest "The importance of morality is that people behave themselves even if nobody's watching. There are not enough cops and laws to replace personal morality as a means to produce a civilized society. Indeed, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Unfortunately, too many of us see police, laws and the criminal justice system as society's first line of defense." --Walter Williams |
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making custom ball bearings...?
Hi,
I'm not even talking of making a thin ring to fit around a shaft-- this is for my ball vise, so I just need to cut a channel, albeit one perfect enough for bearings, into a 9" diameter cylinder of steel. There is massive support behind it, such that distortion and special jaws won't even be necessary. Although I am unsure even of how best to cut the bearing-quality slot, distortion now aside? thanks! -Bernard |
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What's a pot collet? How's it different from a regular collet?
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