Originally Posted by wildwestpat  With home brew machines this is probably not going to be the case due to the method of construction and the methods used. Thus a lot of these precision bearing mount properties are wasted as the bearing mounts have to be shimmed to bring the bearings - shaft and motion travelled into alignment. So why not make your own bearing blocks assuming you are going to have to make adjustments to the mounting on assembly rather than pay through the nose for precission that was intended to give rapid bearing changes on production machines. |
What he said.
FWIW, IH makes their own blocks that are integral to the motor mounts.
They work great and sure seem like a more elegant solution than trying to integrate a third party component.
Cheers,
BW