Pillar drill bearings - repairable?

[[JP]]

Hi there,
So I've had this pillar drill for about 6 years now, one of those eBay bargains, badly listed with errors, that I got for £40...
Anyway, it works fine and its beast that does everything I want, but recently it started to make a noise as what it sounds to be the bearings.
Was trying to find spares for it, but cant find anything, anyone know if its possible to repair these things?
It still works fine and can't see the drill bits wondering about, but thought starting investigating now rather than when/if it completely fails.

And yes, there is a polishing mop on it, this is not what resulted on making the bearing noise. I did use it (once) to polish a metal bracket, but didn't put excessive sideways force on it.

thanks!
JP

 

[J.B. Welding]

Bearings are generally standard sizes, once removed then measure the OD, ID and thickness of the bearing and ebay will stock them with various seal options.

 

[[JP]]

Ok thanks, asked here because I had a quick google search and couldnt find anything pointing at reparing a pillar drill, but in the back of my mind I always thought "if it was put together, surely it will come apart"

big job doing this? anyone done it before?
I haven't even looked properly how it all might come apart

 

[knighty]

99.99% chance they'll standard stocked on the shelf at most bearing places... (because unless you're designing something special, why would you use anything else?)

if you can go without it for a few days / a week, strip it down, pull the bearings out and check the numbers on the face of the outer race... then you can order those bearings pretty much anywhere

(numbers should be obvious so you'll spot them straight away, might just need to wipe the dirt/grease off first)


just don't get bearings on ebay, even branded one's there's a good chance they'll be fake/crap


http://www.bearingboys.co.uk/ is pretty handy, plenty of stock on the website and easy to find / pay for stuff - if you do need something fancy a quick emailphone call normally sorts it out

(didn't really use them much until I needed to order some bearings from a hospital bed, phoned them up because usual place only had apprentice on the phone... bearing boys guy knew the part numbers etc. of the bearings I needed off the top of his head and knew exactly what I needed when I described the machine to him)

 

[rtbcomp]

+1 for Bearing Boys.

 

[[JP]]

ok great stuff gents, many thanks for your input, I shall investigate over this weekend. Need to drill some holes for tabs, but after that is all mainly welding, so I can do without the pillar drill for a while.

 

[graffian]

The ones I have replaced have taken bike wheel bearings.

 

[Wedg1e]

+1 for Bearing Boys.

Make that +2

 

[Maker]

Be sure to fit the new bearings with the numbers facing out, should you ever need to do it again.

Make that +2

+3, good for belts too.

 

[rtbcomp]

I documented the rebuild of my Progress drill on here, so if I sell it I can point the new owner to the thread.

 

[knighty]

You have so much trust that the bearings will be installed with the numbers on the exposed side so are visible without stripping.

Bless

I meant after the bearings are out :-p

 

[winchman]

Google fobco star over haul etc lots of them have been referred. I think Machine Mart sell the record power stuff so could possibly n=help but to be honest Ebay is usually cheaper for bearings