Well I'm stuck again. I can't figure out how to press out the front bearing cover so I can remove the front headstock bearing. I've attached markup of the headstock schematic to explain the problem. The diameter (A) of the headstock through hole and the inside diameter of the bearing, washer and cover are all the same. So I simply don't have anything to press out against.
I had cut a small piece of steel flat bar that I could just barely get under the washer so that it spanned across the hole and pushed out against the washer. I then inserted a socket that was almost the same diameter A so that I was bearing as close to the edge of the washer as possible. However the cover is so tight that it just bent the flat bar right out of the hole. If the bar was any larger to resist bending I wouldn't be able to slide it between the washer and the bearing. I even tried another bar that pressed directly against the bearing cover but because there was less clearance to get it in place, it bent out of the whole even faster.
I'm stuck. :think1:
Aside from that I have a few more questions. What is the taper of the headstock spindle? I know there is supposed to be this reducer sleeve to take it down to a #2 MT but the manual doesn't say what the outside taper is. Is it a #3 or a #4 MT? I'd imagine since I'm missing that I could just get a dead center that goes right into the taper and not bother with the reducer.
Also, there is a "pan moulding" between the head pedestal foot and the chip pan. It's just a rubber gasket. Mine is shot to hell. Did either of you guys have to replace this? I found some adhesive backed 2" wide rubber strips in various thicknesses from Mcmaster Carr that I think I can fold in half over the chip pan edge to emulate that gasket. Do you think that would work?
I had cut a small piece of steel flat bar that I could just barely get under the washer so that it spanned across the hole and pushed out against the washer. I then inserted a socket that was almost the same diameter A so that I was bearing as close to the edge of the washer as possible. However the cover is so tight that it just bent the flat bar right out of the hole. If the bar was any larger to resist bending I wouldn't be able to slide it between the washer and the bearing. I even tried another bar that pressed directly against the bearing cover but because there was less clearance to get it in place, it bent out of the whole even faster.
I'm stuck. :think1:
Aside from that I have a few more questions. What is the taper of the headstock spindle? I know there is supposed to be this reducer sleeve to take it down to a #2 MT but the manual doesn't say what the outside taper is. Is it a #3 or a #4 MT? I'd imagine since I'm missing that I could just get a dead center that goes right into the taper and not bother with the reducer.
Also, there is a "pan moulding" between the head pedestal foot and the chip pan. It's just a rubber gasket. Mine is shot to hell. Did either of you guys have to replace this? I found some adhesive backed 2" wide rubber strips in various thicknesses from Mcmaster Carr that I think I can fold in half over the chip pan edge to emulate that gasket. Do you think that would work?