Colchester Student Gamet bearings preloading technique

[Martin-Sy]

Nope, I've never had one of these apart. No offense taken, but it wasn't clear whether you had any documentation at all.
Still wrong documentation isn't much better than none!
If you have not looked here already:

1953 Colchester Student Mk1 6" gap bed - A restoration project

To start off, a bit of history on this topic. I bought a Colchester Student lathe a few years back for next to nothing and it has not worked a lot as it was super noisy and had a bad vibration when turning. A few months back the electrical switch at the back broke and this started a whole...

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His spindle is not what's in the manual either.

Martin.

 

[prepman]

Nope, I've never had one of these apart. No offense taken, but it wasn't clear whether you had any documentation at all.
Still wrong documentation isn't much better than none!
If you have not looked here already:

1953 Colchester Student Mk1 6" gap bed - A restoration project

To start off, a bit of history on this topic. I bought a Colchester Student lathe a few years back for next to nothing and it has not worked a lot as it was super noisy and had a bad vibration when turning. A few months back the electrical switch at the back broke and this started a whole...

www.4x4community.co.za

His spindle is not what's in the manual either.

Martin.

Very interesting read. The bearings aren't the same though and a different retention setup, but some similarity. Don't know why he bothered with ancient switchgear unless it was an archelogical project. I ripped it out an put a VFD in. Removing the cone seems torturous especially as its part of shaft. But without a manual who'd know? Saying that though, there is no procedure, only the exploded diagram. Think I'll give it a go, what can possibly go wrong?

 

[Carl Wilson]

Go for it. You and everyone else here will learn from the experience.