Thread: Bearings and shafts

Hey Thanaka,

Jump on ebay and get the bearings in the size you want. I will soon be building a slab dresser of my own and am not happy that the Skate Board Bearings will be HD enouogh, so I managed to find 20 brand new sealed bearings with an 8mm bore on ebay, so will fit perfectly over an 8mm Bolt. They cost me around $25AUD with postage for the lot.

Best of luck
Pete

Check out VXB for bearings. I've bought a number of different size bearings from them, including skate(board) bearings. Good service.

They have an eBay store too.

hi, thanks for the replies.
the VXB site is yummy.
i have made a concept of a sliding fence mount, see pic.
the parts for one unit cost USD 56 approx. with a 13 inch shaft.
i asssume that the sliding bearing unit would hold the bar firmly enough.
i would choose the 12mm bearing/shaft size as probably being strong enough.

it looks very neat and a simple solution,
i have made an incredible mess with the skate bearings,
running them along the top and sides of the table with a myriad of bolted in angle,
maybe i'll post a pic later for a good chuckle (but it almost works!).

the router table is the sliding table model from Hare & Forbes, it looks axactly the same as the Carbatech one.
the supplied 2 piece adjustable fence is a piece of cr*p.
almost impossible to align straight and it jumps all over the place when you tighten it.
the unit has lots of other problems too.
- sliding table not flush with cast iron top.
- hole inserts not flush with top.
- the table is 19mm thick where the router is mounted, so i can't even get a slot cutter up high enough to the middle of a 19mm thick board.
- there is no mitre guage slot in the cast iron top, you are supposed to use the sliding table of course, which is actually not too bad if only it were flush.
- the table tilts up to 45º but its still awkward fitting the router.
so for $451 i reckon i bought a slab of cast iron.

I am going to try to get my money back.
i bought it from a catalogue sight unseen from Geelong Machinery Sales (Moolap) and when i explained the above problems they brushed me off and offered no help or interest at all.
I rang Hare & Forbes, the guy there said he could do nothing, any complaints would have to go through Geelong Machinery Sales. I feel a catch 22 coming on.

Recently i have bought lots of other stuff.
I will post my opinions of them soon, they include:
AEG Jigsaw (navy blue).
AEG Drill (orange)
AEG 3 inch Sander (orange)
Ryobi router (the big one).
Makita Track Saw with 2 of 1400mm tracks.

a lot of the reason for all this is because i bought some second-hand ironbark planks,
160mmx30mm, about 54 metres total for $250, which i thought was a good buy.
Intended use is a dining table and a bed.
6 planks for the table top are at a joinery now for squaring up.

after all that i might be able to cut a pice of wood.

interesting note:
while waiting at Bunnings one day i chatted up the Ozito rep,
he said he used to work for Metabo and thus knew AEG (the competition) well.
so i asked about the new orange colour on AEG tools, thinking they must be an economy model.
But he said they are the real thing, there is now only the orange, it was changed to match the US Home Pro stores colour to get their tools into those stores.
true or not? I don't know.

If i ever get the router fence finished then i want to try making one of those router planer jigs.
Another plan is to make up a near vertical frame affair to hold the Makita saw tracks and have my own wall saw for panels.

had you thought about using readily available alluminium extrusion from your local hardware to make a frame similar to that in this video?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5bHweu5LlA]YouTube - Building a CNC machine Part 6[/ame]

while the intention in the video is to use this for a CNC I'm sure you could use the same idea for the creation of a surfacer. It's not to dissimilar to the ones that I saw the guys using at the Maleny Wood Festival earlier this year.

edit: I want to warn you, the guy in these videos is a little annoying to listen to sometimes.

I posted the one that I made here, there would be no reason to make it so complicated, but I would keep the principle the same.

Hope this is of help

Robert