covers

Randy, This is what the ignition control computer covers look like.
It will be a few weeks before I am ready to order a batch. I made
enough on my cheap Chinese mill to fill my immediate needs.

BTW I had to over haul the spindle. I was getting a lot of chatter.
Fortunately it had tapered roller bearings. If it had been a Bridge
Port it would of cost me $2000 for matched dual ball bearings top
and bottom :) I only paid about $600 for the CCM about 45 years ago
:)

There were hair line cracks in the outer race. I did not want to
just tighten it up as the bearing would totally fail soon for sure.

Paul Lamar

Paul, maybe the Bridge Port bearings cost more, but they dont fail
like the chinese ones do. My Bridge Port is a 2hp 1954 model, still
going strong. I had the same situation with my Cat D4 bulldozer in
that the Cat bearings had 13 rollers instead of the normal 11
rollers found in 'other' bearings. Lets not confuse quality with
price Cheers, Russ Ward

I have no idea what you are on about or what you think my point was
:)

The bearing that failed was a Timken made in the USA.

My hangar neighbour had his Bridge Port fail. In fact there is a
company that specializes in over hauling Bridge Port spindles. No
doubt they are using foreign bearings.

It all depends on how the mill is used.

All most everything is made in China now. Even well known US brands.
 Most of your car is made in China. Having said all that there is no
doubt most Chinese goods are junk. But they are slowly getting
better.

The replacement Timken bearing I bought for my mill  was made in
Poland. I assumed I was buying a US made bearing.

If our so called commie president would pull his head out of his ass
and tax Chincom  goods we would have more jobs here. The people over
there are working for nothing due to the commie chin gov fixing the
monetary exchange rate.

Paul Lamar


I agree with all statements here, except perhaps just a bit of additional perspective:  one of my dental patients was an engineer who worked for Timken [Canton Ohio where I am from].  He said Timken gets better quality bearings from their Romanian plant than from Ohio.  Go figure.  I know Americans can still do it as well as anyone when they want, but sometimes they just don’t want to.
Gene Kahn




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