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When I was shopping for angular contact bearings my cheap side provided a few lessons. 1) The Amazon special dirt cheap AC bearings are useless. How bad can they be? BAD! 2) Non matched pairs are no bueno. 3) Prices quoted from most of the bearing places can be very expensive > $300 per 4) There...

Suggestion, you might want to start with a cheap (non angular contact bearing in that location, yes you might have a few thousands displacement, then when everything is working install the good bearing to get rid of that slop. I don't see why the retainer would need to be so tight, you can...

Any idea what caused that to happen?

Update Feb 25-2015 1) Screw length drill set I now have fractional set still looking for letter and number 2) Inside micrometer 0.2-1.2" 3) Vintage/Antique drill index (fractional as well as letter), I already have a nice number one. Something old school like the images below. 4) Vevor...

I echo what Susquatch stated, and keep in mind the following: - When you decide to go to court, the insurance company will use every stall technique known to mankind. - Expect crazy worded threatening documents to be served to you full of lies and utter BS. - Realize that the documents served...

Very interesting. The updated lathe CX706 -> WM250V Looks like: + 1.5HP 3P motor with VFD, they claim loads of low speed torque (I believe them) + wrap up cover on the Z axis leadscrew I'm curious how the pricing compares with BB

Made a hugh difference. My mill was in a location that made it difficult to get access to the head locking nuts. I would constantly drop the big wrench when loosening/tightening. So I made longer permanent levers and added the thrust bearings under the nut. I could tighten with very little...

Looking good. I did a lot of upgrades to my LC30 mill that made it more user friendly: DRO Motorized head lift Thrust washers for head locking Permanent levers for head locking VFD Parallel guide bars to maintain registration when lifting the head Full CNC Custom control interface. After all...

It seems MS has little to no interest in fixing bugs, the same annoying bugs persist for decades and migrate from one version to the next. Clearly MS has other priorities. Further if you Google search a bug, there will be countless links to work arounds that often work initially but then stop...

We have seen this story play out many times, some monster company being run like the mafia is in charge, eventually the company is in financial trouble and then goes bust. Problem is it usually takes decades to happen.