Well now the fun begins, putting the whole thing into a usable state. The first item is the spindle this I had made up by an engineering firm, Like I said at the begining, I will make every thing myself, with some exceptions. This is one of those exceptions.

Anyway, the spindle has a 5/8" bore and a #2MT. The nose is threaded M27*2mm, had I known the difficulty in aquiring a matching tap I would have gone M27*3mm, but there you go.

Well here is a pic of the spindle in question, the bering beside it, is one of three that I'm using in the headstock.



OK, not the best pic, but you get the idea.

Well here are the non cast parts of the headstock assembly. There are four bearing cover plates, two setscrew collars, a three step pully (was four but the 25mm bore took care of the last one), and the three roller bearings, SKF #NU1005.



I was asked how I made the bearing cover plates. These were cut from a circularsaw blade, I cut them out using a can type hole saw at very low revs(134RPM) in my drillpress, you can see the saws and one of the plates.



Well the most challenging bit of the assembly process was pressing the bearings onto the spindle shaft. Now not having a press, here is how I got around the lack of equipment. A bit of pipe and a G-clamp (not shown for clarity).
Only tool accouple of miniutes and I was done, the pic shows the last bearing going on.



Next was a trial assembly just to see how everything fitted, and well as you can see not much needed to be changed.



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