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Originally Posted by Adrian Clark
Why is this necessary?
And a note on standoffs: It's very hard to find .375 OD tube with #10 clearance ID. Rather than buying .375 rod and drilling it out I prefer to buy .0625 wall with .375 OD and put .0625 deep counterbores in the plates to capture the standoff. Makes things much lighter and simpler to make.
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Ditto,
If your turning down the back guy currently to .375", you might as well save yourself time and just lathe it down to .500".
I know it might be lighter to go that smaller bearing but honestly, its much easier programming/making 2 of the same part then it is 2 different parts.
Adrian,
We do about the same thing, buy .375" OD Tube with a .235" ID. 1658T41 - McMaster. We go parting crazy and you can make a lot of spacers in no time, especially on a bar feed
. We use this material for the gearboxes we make. Do you really need the cbores? We've noticed its incredibly harder to assemble gearboxes that way.
-RC