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Title: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 09, 2017, 12:43:36 PM
I am rather annoyed.

I bought this machine some years ago and it looked like a real find, even spindle measured and soud right. I never really used it, but this week I have used first time continuosly, maybe 3 hours total. Never any hint of problem. I was considering of dismantling it and relubricating the bearings, but I did not want to take the risk of ruining the spindle. It has grease lubricated bearings and no relubrication provision.

Almost like this:
http://www.lathes.co.uk/cincinnati-tool-and-cutter-grinder-number-2/img5.jpg

http://www.lathes.co.uk/cincinnati-tool-and-cutter-grinder-number-2/img15.jpg


I was dressing the grinding wheel today and noticed faint but clearly rough sound. No detectable axial clearance, but about 0,03-0,04 mm of radial clearance at the other end with pretty good manual force. it feels funny, not really like play, more like springly/gummy feeling :scratch:

So, I probably need to dismantle it, check it all over, order new imperial parts and slap my forehead with empty wallet and still no quarantee that it will ever work again. :bang:

I have rebuild car wheel bearings and some electric motor, alternator and that sort of stuff, but my success rate has not been 100%.

I am one beer upset.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: Pete. on September 09, 2017, 01:29:33 PM
Just strip it down and fit a new bearing. If imperial stuff is too expensive shim the shaft or housing and fit metric. There's no real magic involved.
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: gerritv on September 09, 2017, 01:56:25 PM
Just strip it down and fit a new bearing. If imperial stuff is too expensive shim the shaft or housing and fit metric. There's no real magic involved.
I disagree. This is not a car axle. Runs at 4000-6200 rpm, any irregularity will show on the ground surface. The retrofit spindle cartridge on my early 1900's Cincinnati Universal grinder has matched bearings (look for a faint dot). >USD600 a pair and easy enough to screw up on installation. I am therefor living with mine the way it is.
The No 2 head drawing shows 2 sets of precision bearings at each end of the shaft. You can count on these to be matched sets, increasing the $$'s and also increasing the risk of installing incorrectly.

I recall in the 1970's replacing bearings on a Univac FH432 drums running at 7142 rpm. If you succeeded all was well with the world. If you failed a day later there would be rubber dust all over the cabinet as the teeth were removed from the drive belt. The shaft at that point usually had twist marks where the bearing stopped turning. Not a happy call to make to the branch manager.
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: Pete. on September 09, 2017, 02:16:38 PM
The best bearings from the 1900's couldn't match decent standard ones today. This is a T&C grinder not a surface grinder, and a homeshop one at that. I flushed and greased the ones in my T&C grinder and it's just fine.
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 09, 2017, 02:38:23 PM
Thank you all.

I'll have another beer, cool down, read everything I find on this cadridge spindle and dismantle it tomorow when I'm cool like the ice-man.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 10, 2017, 08:21:53 AM
OK. cooled dow and did some more measuremets this morning. It turns out that the bearing arrangengement on fixed bearing end has no detectable play in any direction. The other end has play of 0,02 mm and clear sound.

Read everything I could get, but pretty much all says: Don't fix, send it to manufacturer. Not option here.

So, I took out Sopko type grinding stone holders and extension. Hexagon key would not give any indication of opening (and I checked the hand of the bolt from extra adapters). Charged the tank with 3 bar and two small trigger pulls with smallest impact driver opened the bolts easy and with no risk to bearings.

Spindle extension needed a liitle cold spray on firm manual nutation to break it free.

Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 10, 2017, 08:25:33 AM
Needed 3/16" hex key to open the dust covers, other came out easy, but fixed end needed oil, little heaing with hot air gun, big wrench/plastic strips to protect the dust cap and it was tight.

Someone has been there before!

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 10, 2017, 08:30:22 AM
Belt was losened per manual.

Legend plate out from the top and two hex bolts loose and tommy bar/pinion was used to lift the motor and free the belt.

Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 10, 2017, 08:37:04 AM
Need to make keys to to open labyrinth seal and bearing outer ring holder. I was very happy that I had some metric and foreign centerless ground silver steel rods to gauge the pin holes. They were too small to measure accurately with vernier.

Odd thing is that tehy do not seem to be imperial sizes 3,0 and 5,0 mm rods fitted best.

Now I need to make those tools.

There is a consideration that I'd like to share.

1: Do I try to fix the bad end only? If I find a way to adjust the play, I migh get away setting it and maybe with relubrication of the bearing.

OR

2: Do I take the spindle out and try to rebuild it completely? Depending availability of that size/type angular ball bearing this might lead completely new spindle caridge construction.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: mattinker on September 10, 2017, 11:24:15 AM
Personaly I 'd try to adjust and then you still have the fix-it all option if that doesn't work!

By the way, how's the repeat-o-meter? are you stuck for grinding you feet?

Regards Matthew
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 10, 2017, 12:55:27 PM
Repeat-o-meter was suposed to be excuse to try out grinding machine and planned parts and sequence for it. Even bought a small magnetic table, it's still on the mail and got this weekend to sort out the gring machine dust collection and to clean a little of the garage.

Rained all weekend - not fun to take trailer on front and load it up with all the crap from garare and then this spindle problem. If this does not get sorted, I may need to revert file and milling machine.

Made one tool that has pins for labyrinth seal (rotates with arbor) and bearing outer ring retaining nut.

Fits well on both, other side was a little tighter. Tried to open them by hand but the both nuts are tight.

Do you think the nuts have normal right hand thread? Would they have used glue or they are just tight? Did't want to try to open them that hard anymore today.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: mattinker on September 10, 2017, 05:03:08 PM
It is so frustrating when you end up repairing things to make things to allow you to get on with what you had hoped to de!

I feel for you, regards, Matthew
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 11, 2017, 02:57:51 PM
Not much to show...I checked the sound with stetoscope, wiggled and loosened/tightened the nuts...looks like it needs a rebuild.

More pictures tommorow, need to mark and box parts to prevent mixing.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: gerritv on September 11, 2017, 04:15:28 PM
Not much to show...I checked the sound with stetoscope, wiggled and loosened/tightened the nuts...looks like it needs a rebuild.

More pictures tommorow, need to mark and box parts to prevent mixing.

Pekka

Did you take a look at the instructions to replace the spindle belt? I think there are some clues there that might help with fault isolation as well as disassembly. The spindle assembly should be able to slide out 1 side. Page 51 of the Operators manual.

In photo P9105869c.jpg above you remove the LH bolt, loosen the middle bolt and tighten up the RH bolt to spread the casting open slightly (on both ends of the casting).

Gerrit
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 11, 2017, 10:08:10 PM
Thank you.

I have been reading the manuals about the spindle removal and belt change. It is very well covered and the structure is rather obvious.

I loosen up the bearing retaining nuts, while the spindle is still firmly mounted. All four nuts opened normally. Normal right hand thread, if it had thread locking compound it was very little resistance on it. Definitely needed the tool and some arm, nut not anything like encounter on car wheel bearings.

Put parts loosely back in. I don't want it to come apart while I take it out or mix parts.

Few pictures to amuse you.

I did undo the spindle set screws both ends of the spindle, then loosen up the clamping bolts and turnd maybe just a little more than 2/3 turn of the jack screws to spread the clamp. Now the spindle sifts out well.

Plan is to remove the spindle and disassemble the parts on boxes to prevent parts from mixing.

When I have the bearing type and see all the marking for glues maybe I can find replacement bearings that I am willing to buy.

I am intrigued to see how free bearing end differs from fixed bearing end.

Pekka

BTW. see the "Oil cap" at the last picture. It is not an oil cap!

*typos* not smartest very early/late!
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: gerritv on September 12, 2017, 08:14:02 AM
Good news then! At least it will come apart for the next stage.
If the bearings are a matched pair there will be a small round fuzzy mark on the outer race. These marks are supposed to line up with each other according to my local rebuilder. As Pete said maybe it doesn't matter for our uses as hobbyists but I can't help wonder about other bearing characteristics such as tolerances. High RPM generates heat and it has to be dissipated to avoid seizing. (I heard of some people who didn't want to pay for the correct idler bearings on Ferrari 308 engines, a bearing seizure at 7000rpm is spectacular in its consequences! I chose not to cheap out when I did the belt change on my 308GT4 :-)) There are probably some identifiers after the main bearing number that indicate fit/tolerance.

Perhaps that Oil bolt belongs somewhere else? My ancient machine has an oil hole that goes nowhere as well, perhaps a trademark of Cincinnati :-)
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 12, 2017, 09:10:33 AM
Jeah, I know the feeling of the cheap bearings and fear of knackering the expensive ones in assembly. It's funny how people learn word "brinelling" and how descriptive it is on wrong handling.

I have this growing suspicion that least free end has two deep groove ball bearings. I'll be damned if the other end does not have pair matched angular contact bearings in DB (back-to-back) form. But lets see....I'm easily surpriced and entertained. :scratch:

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 12, 2017, 03:42:41 PM
Removal os pindle and flat belt was really easy.

Marked the parts with permanent marker and started taking the spindle apart.

Bearings came out easy. There is big extractor on the picture, but I used only hand tight, the double ball bearings came out easy, without resorting spanner at all, the single double row ball bearing needed a touch of spanner on the puller and that too came out easy.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 12, 2017, 03:58:01 PM
The bearing arrangement was really unusual...all metric bearings - made in usa!

Outside diameter of the spindle housing(s) is about 77,78 mm. Must be something magical, like 3".

The other end had a single SKF 2305, nominally 25x62x24 mm bearing, no special markings or anything, just "NW05" on outer ring. Probably nothing magical on this one?

This probably would do:
https://www.agrolager.de/product_info.php?products_id=12100840

The other end is completely different story: pair of 6305 SKF 25x62x17 mm bearings. That size is very normal and standard, but rest of the bearings are bit different and I don't know what to make out of them.

Those bearing have markings all over them. There are max TIR marking on outer race/inner race, alignment marks on outer races and then some markings on inner ring that I either have wrong or I simply don't get them

"6305 C7 B3 G1" or something like that. C7 does not make any sense. Maybe it is C1, which is very small internal clearance, out of normal bearings that stop on C2. CN is normal and C3 bit more clearance. Another thing is that this should have accuracy class like P6 marking in it or down to P4 (ABEC 7).

Trying to hunt down something semi decent like 6305.P6 FAG and see how far it would take.

Don't like them completely open, but probably non contact seals were not available at that time. Least not on spindle bearings.

ideas?

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: gerritv on September 12, 2017, 05:44:07 PM
Which bearings were at the 'spongy' end?

The matched ones have a lot more markings than mine.
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 13, 2017, 12:58:56 AM
This "normal" SKF 2305 was the one first giving the grief, but the other (pair) has detectable noise too.

This 2305 is easy to find pretty much exact replacement, but the paired ball bearing 6305 arrangement is harder to find. Size is common, but the clearance and accuracy needs to be sorted out

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 13, 2017, 07:20:26 AM
Now this got interesting: Started whing on coffee about my grinding machine spindle bearings and consensus was that new brand name SKF/FAG deep grove ball bearings standard accuracy class tends to be P5 or close and I might be better off choosing C3 clearance and match/fit bearings myself that trying to find matched pair. Easier option would be to buy pair of universal angular contact bearings, they should fit straight out of package, no fitting&faffing...only to check that critical loads do not exceed demand....deep groove ball bearings and angular contact ball bearings are rather different.

The story (they say) about C3 P5 is that larger than normal clearance (C3) might be actually better if I plan to shim (or preload) the clearance out...those bearings do not cost arm and leg, might buy two just to check if they can be measured and tried out.

Choices.....

Pekka

*Forgot C3*
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: gerritv on September 13, 2017, 12:20:11 PM
Sounds like all round good news.
And perhaps hope for when I decide mine are too noisy to live with. I think I have a matched pair of 205W's at each end, can't tell until I take it completely apart. And that means replacing the bearings anyway :-(
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 14, 2017, 02:28:56 AM
Very often bearings are hard to remove without putting pressure on correct bearing ring, thus brinneling the bearings. Therefore I used no hammering and minimum amount of pressure. I want to measure/check the bearings.

I am not mechanical engineer, but there are quote a few I can talk to and one in particular has been designing and making big industrial gear boxes and developing methods to produce parts of them. Like to talk to him, because he is very hands on person, although got later in life doctorate degree, cut's fast trough bullshit and tells me often that I have been reading too much and spent too little time looking bearing tables and intimately understand what they actually mean in practice.

I rinsed the bearings yesterday with grease remover, dunk them on ultrasonic cleaner, dunk them on IPA (to remove water) and gave a drop of oil to be able to check them.

Then a friend came to check them. He said that the bearing surfaces looks pretty much good enough and I could clean then further (looks like grease interacted with cage and "plated" it) and reuse them. Totally unexpected. He explained that the noise I heard most likely came from gunked grease and released "plating" from the cage.

2305 bearings have certain amount of play, C3 internal clearance seem to be standard, threfore the play I measured from floating end is not alarming for this bearing type.
http://www.skf.com/pk/products/bearings-units-housings/ball-bearings/self-aligning-ball-bearings/self-aligning-ball-bearings/index.html?designation=2305%20E-2RS1TN9

Values: ISO 5753-1. Values are valid for unmounted bearings under zero measuring load.
http://www.skf.com/pages/jsp/catalogue-table.jsp?id=tcm:143-138591

That means effectively that I should mount the wheel on the other end I had it.....no problem. I need to buy the belt anyways, might use 30€ for new bearing and dab it with good grease.


Other end (2*6305 deep groove ball bearings) is still under consideration, exact replacements are hard to get, original ones are shedding debris from ball cage and they are not measured yet. I may need to buy pretty good ball bearings, measure axial deflection under preload and stack them with shims between inner and outer races...never done it on this accuracy, would be new and firs one for me.

I need to buy belt anyway, I'll give me few days to think this over and maybe I can devise ways to measure old and new bearings?

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: Andrew Wildman on September 14, 2017, 03:09:45 AM
Sounds like fun and games. I hate fitting bearings. Always seems that even with the correct procedure results are variable
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 14, 2017, 08:27:47 AM
Yesh and sometimes a little of discretion can ruin the whole thing....you think you have the exactly right pressure plate and all and then something is skewed and then it's easily too much force on wrong place and when bearing just jerks, instead seating right....cold sweat breaks.

These are small and relatively cheap bearings and I have suspicion on all work I do. I don't think I will cause irreversible damage, just lost work/dignity, some lost time and cash. That's all.


Tried shortly to google good method and DIY-fixture or contraption to measure bearing inner clearance (radial/axial) and to measure "high spot" on IR/OR that is bearing inner/outer ring coaxiality in relation of raceway....my English her is pretty sketchy, because I find only chinese videos :lol:

This looks nice, but I don't get how that frictionless and differential measurement works:
http://www.prattandwhitney.com/Content/LabMaster_Universal_Bearing_Measurement_Instrument_.asp

Click those pictures bigger at the bottom of the page.

Thinking of using V-block and that sort of stuff at home and have bearing resting over a surface plate, but I'm probably going to measure more my weebly-woble than bearing on my first try.

Any advice?

Pekka

Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 14, 2017, 03:48:10 PM
I soaked the bearings overnight on IPA and got all grease and most of gunk out.

Self-aligning ball bearing 2305 seem to clean up completely and is charming himself with clear iternal clearance as it should.

The ball bearings are bit more troublesome. The ball retaining ring (cage) seems to be shedding some stuff. Part of that is something like flakes or something, bit like grud you get when put wrong type of oil on sychro gear box....and when viewed 20x magnification shows some metallic grit on surface. The cage sheds that stuff in 2 minutes on ultrasound wash (heated, about 70W) that first I though I ruined it, balls would not turn easy, but when rinsed in IPA it pretty much comes out.

So, the plan is to find replacement.



Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 14, 2017, 03:54:05 PM
Armed with 0,002 mm/div lever dial indicator and some hardware tried to measure concentricity of inner ring to ball races, barely could measure outer ring, inner ring was easier.

I need a fixture or setup, this size bearing is too small to measure on surfavce plate. Hard not to move the bearing while it is rotated.

Hopeless to measure internal clerance, indication is clear enough, but too many moving parts.


Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 16, 2017, 03:35:14 PM
Did some cleaning, belt pulley had almost lost crown and had some wear. Quick mounting on lathe a bit spin restored it good enough, very little material was removed, more like smoothing than anything else.

Secon thing as to check all threads and clean them. All went well. i notices that fixed bearing end bearing outer ring retainer had some resin left in the thread, looks like it was glued with a thread locker, cleaned i up and planning to use weakest thread locker I have (blue in color).

Then I check the fit on shaft and shell. I used very little layer of micrometer blue to see if there are any problems, There were some little abrasion marks on the other end, i used plastic abrasive pad, just one quick round and they seem to disapear most of it. Shaft measured out 24,995 mm ant six places and on one 25,994 mm. Nominal is 25,000 mm and that size bearing should have inner ring about -10 µm tolerance. Looks fine to me.

Shell to bearin outer ring was firm sliding fit...did not quite drop of it's own, but when straightened with a press  (by rotaing sheel/outer ring just when arbour kisses the outer ring seating bushing) it bottoms with "swoosh" with a slight manual effort.

Shaft to inner ring as an easy press fit, basically all has to be straight, can't push it manually, but press has no eferrot at all.

Both fits were that perfect that no dye was left on mating surfaces, pretty much all color was pushed ahead of the bearing.

Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 16, 2017, 03:46:24 PM
Now the interesting part: Trying to figure out how to replace matched ball bearing set.

I tried to measure axial play of one bearing....not really a standard way because inner ring tilts too easy on this measurement, got about 0,14 mm axial play, think that axial play is average about 8,5-10,0 times of radial play....

6205 has a 25 mm bore the C3 has a radial clearance range of 13 – 28 microns (µm).

Shaft was measured 24,995 mm and 6205 has an inner ring diameter tolerance of -10 µm, leaving the true average around 24.995 mm...and outer ring is not affected (could not measure any compression when mouned), therefore we have straight C3 tolerance to play with - I think.

So, that seems to confirm that C3/P5 ball bearings should be my starting point. What do you think?

If I get good quality C3/P5 I should be able to shim that set close to original set.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: gerritv on September 16, 2017, 08:37:29 PM
Very methodical and for me educational. I won't fear my eventual spindle bearing replacement as much as I did before.
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 17, 2017, 02:37:24 AM
Thank you.

I am electrical engineer, but I have been tinkering with machines all my life. At one point I was involved in servohydraulics and mechanical maintenance. It is diffenet to follow guidelines and practices or design something new. This is something old and obiviously clearly successfull design that I can't rebuild (blueprit) with original parts, I have to get a little creativive with different rpalacement parts that went in originally.

I know a little of some things and when I try to do something rather new to me, I try to learn enough. But at the very begining of learning curve it is really hard to find out what is essential and what is not and some information you get it wrong or not really usefull on the application you have at hand.

Like lubricant and clenliness. Someday it is rally not that critical, and on some systems it is laa important.

I'm prepared to wash all parts, dewater, lightly oil, use lintfree cloth to clean all critical surfaces and use clean good quality grease fron new tube. But I'm not going all grazy about filtering all liquids, air and grease.

This assembly is a bit tricky: There is no provision for removal of the bearings from IR, therefore have to get them right first time. Both ends are removed by pulling the bearing from OR and that transmits the extraction force wrong way: OR->balls->IR and the IR is mounted with light press fit, this could mean brinneling the bearings.

So I have to mount bearings to shells, calmp OR very lightly to keep the bearings in place and then press bearing IR to shaft using a fitting bushing. Will need to "dry" run the thing without bearings, to make sure I have all bushings and pads ready before I start the work.

I have to measure the belt carefully. Looks like I can't order the te belt and bearings from one place, so postage will add up a little.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 17, 2017, 07:00:19 AM
About belts, flat belts and their reliability I should know something.....

But I rather use calculators, because they tell me is something looks about right or misses the mark a mile or more.

So, I streched the original belt over two 25 mm OD electric conduits (sor of like pulleys) meassured the max. distance, streched hand force and youg tape manipulation and got result of 1083 mm, threfore the belt length is about 2195 mm, tried to cross reference that agains information on net.


Used this calculator:
http://best-drive-belt.co.uk//belt-calculator/flat-belt-calculation.html

Bit of monkeying arounnd with numbers to make them sit into actual physical parts and calculator looks like this:

So, I'm thinking of buyin this belt 25 mm wide. What do you think?
http://best-drive-belt.co.uk/flat-belt/flat-belt-det.251202200.html

Pekka

Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 18, 2017, 09:50:57 AM
Could not buy the belt! I have been buying from them before, but this time I typed in all the info address and all and when I got to pay, I got blank page. Three tries with two different browsers.

I could not find right away anywhere shop that a) has web shop that sells to private customers b) has any technical data in it.

This looks iffy:
https://www.accu.co.uk/en/flat-belts/39064-B-F-25-2200

Any EU-area shop suggestions?

Got the bearings ordered, with plenty of shims.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 19, 2017, 10:46:02 AM
That supplier never answered on my email. Ordered belts from Finnish company. All up cost about 95€ for two belts delivered home (minimum order of 2 pcs. from Germany).

I don't have yet bomb proof way to measure axial/radial play and TIR on individual and mounted bearings....have to device something. Need first pretty close to 25,00 minus tolerance short shaft to stack the bearings and measure clearances.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 21, 2017, 04:06:29 PM
I have tried to figure out how to measure bearings and proove shimmed bearings. I have odd ends of 25 mm linear rail rods. They are hardened 3 mm deep and pretty well ground. Shortest piece is as close as I measure same diameter than the grinding head spindle shaft.

Cleaned the ends, cooled down the shaft keeping it hour outside +10C and used hot air blower to heat up the bearing IR to about +50C, then parts fitted with finger pressure.

Tried to measure them on granite surface plate, but I don't have heavy enough prisms to make system rigid enough...I was measuring the flex of the system...

Then I got the idea of nipping the bearings together on press using bushings over the shaft. Worked well.

Now I only have to find out a way to lapp the shaft slightly down.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 23, 2017, 04:36:33 AM
The bearings and belt did not arrive for this weekend, leaving me time to make some gauging and fitting utsensils.

1: made small about 25 mm long hole axially at the tight end of the arbor to ease extraction of the bearings - allows cold spray spout where needed.

2: Made M6 internal thread at the other end to lock bearing axially during the measurement.

3: Lapped the other end about 0,002 mm smaller, achieving easy sliding fit, when all parts are at same temperature. This was fun part. Could not really gauge it on cool garage, beacause part was warm.

Lap was not best possible, rather hard structural steel, but cast iron would have been much more work.

Checked the ends this morning against gauge blocks and readings are:

Gauge blocks 25,001 mm

Tight end: 24,990 mm

Sliding fit end: 24,988 mm

Finish loks awfull on the picture, it is rather difficult to see on normal light. I was affraid it would not show.



Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 27, 2017, 01:21:41 AM
I got bearings Yesterday, rushed to test them.

2305 is "tight" must wash it and fill partially with other grease.

6205 were SKF Explorer" series and seem to rotate very true, hard to measure radial excentricity. Better than speck. Axial play is hard to measure without good rig, it wobbles 0,15 mm axially, pretty close the same than original ones.

Stack them on very close fitting shaft with a 0,2 mm ground washer DIN 988 between outer rings. Almost all axial and radial play disappears, radial exxcentricity statys very close to zero, but there is some axial excentricity (maybe 0,002 mm) and some "mushiness" of 0,005 m with manual force.

I think that anomality I noticed is largely due to ring sides not ground to straightness for pairing these bearings.

I'm going to play a little bit more to see if mutual placement of the rings will mach these bearings better, but it looks nearly good enough.

I have only one try when these bearings are pressed on spindle. They have no provision on exterting the pulling force to inner ring.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 29, 2017, 12:25:54 PM
Unbelievable week at the work.

Tried shims:
0,1 mm axial wobble 0,16 mm
0,2 mm hardly any detectable axial clearance, no detectable preload either
0,3 mm, clearly preload

Looks like 0,2 mm shim is a charm.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: gerritv on September 29, 2017, 01:30:44 PM
Wow, just wow.
A very educational thread. I don't have tools that measure to that level so not sure what will happen when it is my turn to do this.
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on September 30, 2017, 07:44:04 AM
Thank you. I'm trying to educate myself as well :wave:

I could not sleep, and tried to "pair" the bearings better.

Put 0,3 mm shin between outer races and just nipped the clearing out, but that way it will not show on rotationalin sensitivity. The idea was to measure radial and axial play/movement.

I used 0,002 mm/div indicator and could not get play, some movement with finger pressure, but really next to nothing.

The interesting part that when I measure very carefully radial centricity I really can't detect any real movement on the needle, I can see it moving, but on the same place. If I coax some force I can read deflection on the measuremet system (fine adjustment of the normal magnetic stand is not up to task on micrometer scale), but hardly much TIR.

Axial TIR is differen and that I'm trying to establish..Needle moves on markings, tried to "ride" them with shim, but shim rides the markings.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on October 01, 2017, 06:48:33 AM
Got message that the belt will be on it's last leg in Finland. Should get it at the begining of the week. pressure is mounting.

Played a little more with the bearings, a little gentle swipe on best diamond lap I had and burr on markings is now nearly non detectable.

Checked the straighness of the bearing rings. They look pretty straight even wth a dial indicatot that has resolution of 1 µm. I can see 1-2 µm high/low difference, not yet sure how does that realtes to ball races. Have to figure how to stablize measuremet the way that it produces meanigfull results - to align inner/outer rings to mimize excentricity.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on October 02, 2017, 07:05:26 AM
Got some time to do bit more testing with the bearings and with/no preload. Turns out that the required shim thickness depends how you stack the bearings. Although bearing inner and outer races are pretty good and coaxial with ball raceways, they are not the same axially. Simply they are not optimized to work as matched pair.

Knowing all that I know now, I may have tried matched pair angular contact bearings. What I don't know if buying C3/P6 bearing would have changed things. I'm playing here with standard (CN) SKF Explorer 6305 bearing.

I found combination that exact bearing faces are shimmed next to each others and IR/OR are turned in relation to produce almost no preload, almost no play and only 2 µm axial throw on outer ring. On most "uneconomical" orientation the error is nearly 20 µm....interestingly both configurations produce very little of radial throw. That probably means that fitting them into spindle tube will not change things.

Next decision is what bearing grease I should use.

1: I have standard new grease SKF:n LGMT 2
http://www.skf.com/group/products/lubrication-solutions/lubricants/general-purpose-industrial-and-automotive-nlgi-2-grease/index.html

NLGI 2, oil viscosity is  40 °C, 110  mm²/s


2: I have least five years old Klüber spindle grease, two diifferent varities, They are kept cool storage, packed well, plastic bag wrapped around them....But open tub and most used.

3: Order 50g tube of Kluber ISOFLEX NBU 15? That would be right stuff, bit overkill for this one.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: gerritv on October 02, 2017, 08:29:14 AM
I would guess that matched sets are put together by doing what you are: measuring each one and marking perhaps the high spot. On the visible bearings on my spindle there is a vague circular spot marked on each outer race.

Gerrit
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on October 03, 2017, 04:04:17 AM
Matched  bearing sets I have seen have markings IR/OR to show orientation.

I am not sure if modern bearings are matched only by selection of components or there is some grinding involved. I got once 15 years ago bearing that had inner race sides ground, and max/min marked with permanent marker on rings and handwriten note in the package.

Did not do anything Yesterday on this one, had plenty of other activity.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on October 12, 2017, 03:01:43 PM
Found out that shim discs were not very straight either, two beaings each two rings and one shim all has to fit together.

I put all the stuff together, but did not mount it into grinder yet. Eager to test it. I think I got it, but will see when it runs some time.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on October 14, 2017, 02:23:06 PM
Today was the big day to put it all together....and circumstances conspired against me.

Anyway, I used one hour to contemplate which way to assemble the spindle. It is mechanically symmetrical but bearings are quite different. Also the wheel head does not rotate 350 degrees, maybe 270 degrees.

It was easy to mount the spindle cartridge back in it's place and tighten the bearing nuts. I did not yet assemble the dust shields, I want to run it hour or so, before assembling all the rest.

It does run quiet, initila impression is positive. It does not warm perceptibly, but something happens because even when it runs easy, play of 0,005 reduces to 0,002 mm or smaller (finger load). Have to run it longer to see if it starts heating up or getting tighter.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on October 17, 2017, 02:49:46 PM
Today I had extra hour, went to garage and tun the spindle empty for 40 mins. No load but the flat belt drive.

Starting temperature of the grage and spindle was was about 14C.

2305 lbearing temp increased to 16C in about 5 mins and stabilized there for the rest of time. Imeasured the sppindle temperature inside the shaft thread hole. Outside of the spindle warmed up in 30 mins to 16 degrees C. This is the free end of the spindle, really expected no problem there.

The fixed end with two 6305 bearings produced more heat and cased me to stop the spindle every 5-10 minutes and check how it feels. I also changed the rotation direction on every stop and once tightened the shaft/housing nuts.

Spindle "intenal" temp raised in 15 minutes to 22C and then stablilized to 21C after spindle housing reached 16C and stabilized there.

Thik it is behaving well, next step is to mount rest of the parts there (dust shields and such) and then to test magnetic table.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: gerritv on November 09, 2017, 07:13:22 AM
I know your spindle is together now, here is a fascinating series of articles on the topic of spindle rebuilds.
https://highspeedtechnologies.com/category/how-to-replace-cnc-spindle-bearings/

Lots of your analysis is confirmed in the articles.

Gerrit
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on November 09, 2017, 11:05:44 AM
Thank you very much. That makes very interesting reading!

P.S. so far this grinder spindle has been fine, has to to but real work soon.

Pekka
Title: Re: Spindle problem with cincinnati tool and cutter grinder 2 spindle
Post by: PekkaNF on November 12, 2017, 03:44:57 AM
I know your spindle is together now, here is a fascinating series of articles on the topic of spindle rebuilds.
https://highspeedtechnologies.com/category/how-to-replace-cnc-spindle-bearings/

Lots of your analysis is confirmed in the articles.

Gerrit

Thank you. That was a tully great find.

I went it trough twice and it looks very good. Very well writen and exceptionally informative, I would have saved a week of resercah and buggig of taltented mechnacial designer if I had this before I started. It does conform all I was told but it is more structured and better.

Still happy about my learning curve and these are the thigs you learn only by doing and studying.

Hope this helps if another amateur like me has to fix an odd spindle.

Pekka