Hi MARKG
Thanks for your kind remark's,not many have realised what I really had done with the Bridgeport heads I have rebuilt
To be able to run at the 120Hz which will give you around 6000rpm,at 1/1 all the bearings have to be in good shape, or new in the head, the motor you should rebuild with good quality bearings (NSK/SKF Etc) & balance the motor is a must, the stock motor is 3450rpm so is quite easy to get it to the 6,000rpm @ 120Hz after being balanced, with your pulley mounted
Yes Mark the mod's made to this head were all related to getting a nice smooth/high speed running spindle, the back gear was removed as well in this head, this allowed 5" to be taken out of the top & 3" off the motor shaft, I could of taken more off the motor shaft, but I had already balanced it, so left it at that, I have run these as high as 12,000
with a 2/1 pulley set
The only problem is with the spline's that drive the spindle, this long shaft gets a wobble on it, so I mounted a solid piece on top of the splines that slides up & down inside a bushing in the piece that mounts on top of the disc brake this takes care of that problem
With removing the back gear you lose any ability to be able to cut heavy duty stuff at low speed
It is still very good down to around 800rpm/1000rpm with the 1/1 pulley set without the backgear
If you need low speed torque for cutting then you need to have a 2 pulley set 1.5/1 or a 2/1 set as well as the 1/1set
to get good cutting at low speed