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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Spherical bearing staking tool

To stake our spherical bearings, a special tool is required.  We managed to break one of the two halves last year, so we needed a new one.  I thought about buying one, but I had some extra stock laying around that wasn't going to be used for anything else, and now that our mill is fixed, I decided to just make one.  Took about half an hour from start to finish, and I got to use one of our fancy five-flute carbide end mills.  Nice mill bits make a world of difference...
The finished product
 A couple of pictures of the machining after the jump.



Machining the pocket

Machining the clearance for the A-arm bearing carrier

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