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Hi Gerry. At the moment, the tri-power is on hold while shop construction work is in progress. As soon as that is done, I can get back to the tri-power and get it all finished. Cheers, Roberto

Most welcome, glad I could help !

Side note, some of the bearing will be hard to remove even though they feel loose. Once you get the old bearings off the shafts, take a file and re-round/clean...

Hi Everyone,

Here is the requested bearing numbers, prices, and qty from Applied.com.

These are not the cheapest nor the most expensive, they are the one that suits the function and speed.
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So today had a little time to spare and removed the original lathe motor and installed the mill motor in its place (they are the same). Wham, the slight vibration gone and the lathe setup runs very...

Alex,

More than happy to do so, have those handy at home, give me a couple days. One of the bearing I wanted Applied was out of stock and required a minimum order of 10 to get a back in stock and...

Been noticing that ! Thanks for the confirmation.

This is a problem for me since I work from 0530 to 1800 and calling out is a problem. Email is my best option since I can do that from anywhere....

Hello Everyone,

Can someone recommend a place that has good precsision ball screw retrofit kits for a bridgeport series 1 machine. Also looking for CNC folding handles.

Cheers,
Roberto

Hi Everyone,

After a wait, finally got all the quality replacement bearing for the motor box. Spent some time installing the them and what a heck of difference !! Very very smooth and quiet. ...

Then you might want to look here http://www.americanrotary.com/static-phase-converters.html and contact these folks. There are very helpful ! Kinda interesting, I and several friends are using...

I do not know if this helps or not, but this is what I am using to power 3 phase stuff on my bridgeport http://www.americanrotary.com/rotary-phase-converters.html (using 7.5 HP version). The...

Hi Mike,

Thanks and yes I am, great stress reliever :)

The direction I talking about is the same as the machine movement axis. The loads I was using was a static 200lbs. My main goal was to...

Hi Everyone,

More updates and work .... :)

The lathe head unit was so out of wack that it was easier to re-surface the base and make it square. Turned out we had to take 0.05 from side to...

Here is the start of the pics, please excuse the junk in the background. Limited on space and in the process of rebuilding my shop also ....

Here is the table, all cleaned, fixed and repainted:...

Hi Gerry,

Welcome aboard ! I should note if I did not already mention it, my system was damaged in transist. Fedex frieght (they are great but ...) destroyed the shipping crate, broke a couple a...

Hi Mike,

Yes, big project, but looks like a ton of fun ! Took a while to dismantle everything and notice a problem with the table. So I removed everything and noticed the table has a 1/2 inch...

Hi Folks,

Here goes my real first post. Been here a long time lurking and learning, now time to share and give back :D

Traded my old shoptask machine and got a tri-power with my cnc stuff...

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for update !! Well it figures, just my luck. Could you ask him if there is any chances of getting the some of the images for the work that he offered from his site ? I could...

Hi Everyone,

Anyone know what happen to Chuck's site ? I have a couple mods I need done to my system and he has what I need.

Thanks,
Roberto