I heard this place was a good site to come to for information without judgement. I will start off by saying I am not a machinist, I own a Grizzly mill but barely know how to use it. I am working on a project where we are inserting bearings into metal and they have to be slip fit. Where my confusion lies is how oversized should the hole be? The bearing is 1/2 inch and we are using loctite 680, I have read the data sheet for the loctite and lets be honest here I am again not a machinist so those numbers are hard for me to understand. I bought a 501 reamer and was thinking it might just be the trick for the bearing to slide right in and the loctite will hold it in place. My main concerns are these
1. The bearing needs to be centered
2. There can be no outside pressure on the bearing or it will slow it down or even prevent it from spinning
3. Is there a reamer just under the 501 so the 1 would be at half?
Any help would be great, I have tried calling the bearing company but getting past the guy who answers and knows nothing has been a pain, I don't want to switch bearing companies as I 100% love this bearing.
I am also located in San Jose, CA and will be looking for a machine shop to run 100 pieces of this item once our specs are in line.
Thanks again
David
1. The bearing needs to be centered
2. There can be no outside pressure on the bearing or it will slow it down or even prevent it from spinning
3. Is there a reamer just under the 501 so the 1 would be at half?
Any help would be great, I have tried calling the bearing company but getting past the guy who answers and knows nothing has been a pain, I don't want to switch bearing companies as I 100% love this bearing.
I am also located in San Jose, CA and will be looking for a machine shop to run 100 pieces of this item once our specs are in line.
Thanks again
David