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Working With Metal Continued
Here is bearing housing with the inside diameter finished and ready
to accept the bearings.
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I'm putting in four threaded holes for
some 5/16-18 bolts (coarse thread). This will hold the bearing housing
to the floor.
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Here is what it looks like and the next step is to press
in the bearings. Speaking of bearings, I put the bearings in the freezer
overnight to make them easier to install because it shrinks them by a
small amount. Now if I hit my dimensions correctly, those bearings will
be easy to install.
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I used my milling machine to help with the installation, which worked
out great.
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I used a 1 X 2 X 3 block to help keep things square and they both went in
perfectly.
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These bearings are way overkill for what I'm doing here (very large and
heavy duty), but I had them sitting around so I thought I use them.
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Here I'm putting in the bolt holes for the adapter. Those holes are
slightly over 1/4" and the same will be put into the adapter.
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Here is the shaft pressed into the bearing housing and everything went
together great. Note the flat on the right side. I machined that for the
pulley screw.
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The left side will stick up through the floor and the four bolt holes
will mount to the plywood.
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Here is the adapter all ready to bolt-up to the bearing shaft.
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