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"Kudzu"

26/12/2003 7:20 AM

Shaft and bearing-where to buy?

I have seen a shaft and bearing assembly in one of the catalogs and now I
can't find it. This is a metal shaft with threaded ends that you attach your
pulley and electric motor. It's threaded on the ends to accept grinding
wheels or buffs and uses cheaper sleeve bearing pillow blocks. Who sells
those?

I want to build a cabinet with a couple of these mounted with stones and
buffing wheels.

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Kudzu <*\\><
The man that always tells the truth never has to remember what he said


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gG

[email protected] (GTO69RA4)

in reply to "Kudzu" on 26/12/2003 7:20 AM

26/12/2003 6:44 PM

It's called a buffing arbor. You can still buy them quite a few places, but
they're not as common as they used to be. Try McMaster-Carr or a metal spinning
or stone polishing catalog.

By the way, unless it has guards, don't mount grinding wheels on one. People
have been nearly killed when a wheel blows.

GTO(John)

>I have seen a shaft and bearing assembly in one of the catalogs and now I
>can't find it. This is a metal shaft with threaded ends that you attach your
>pulley and electric motor. It's threaded on the ends to accept grinding
>wheels or buffs and uses cheaper sleeve bearing pillow blocks. Who sells
>those?
>
>I want to build a cabinet with a couple of these mounted with stones and
>buffing wheels.
>
>--
>Kudzu <*\\><
>The man that always tells the truth never has to remember what he said

Cc

"CW"

in reply to "Kudzu" on 26/12/2003 7:20 AM

26/12/2003 2:18 PM

The local ACE hardware has them around here.


"Kudzu" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have seen a shaft and bearing assembly in one of the catalogs and now I
> can't find it. This is a metal shaft with threaded ends that you attach
your
> pulley and electric motor. It's threaded on the ends to accept grinding
> wheels or buffs and uses cheaper sleeve bearing pillow blocks. Who sells
> those?
>
> I want to build a cabinet with a couple of these mounted with stones and
> buffing wheels.
>
> --
> Kudzu <*\\><
> The man that always tells the truth never has to remember what he said
>
>

gG

in reply to "CW" on 26/12/2003 2:18 PM

26/12/2003 10:24 PM

These are for buffing wheels. You should have a guard over a stone.


>The local ACE hardware has them around here.
>
>
>"Kudzu" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> I have seen a shaft and bearing assembly in one of the catalogs and now I
>> can't find it. This is a metal shaft with threaded ends that you attach
>your
>> pulley and electric motor. It's threaded on the ends to accept grinding
>> wheels or buffs and uses cheaper sleeve bearing pillow blocks. Who sells
>> those?
>>
>> I want to build a cabinet with a couple of these mounted with stones and
>> buffing wheels.
>>

Bc

"Bofus"

in reply to "Kudzu" on 26/12/2003 7:20 AM

26/12/2003 3:44 PM

Try here,

http://www.mcmaster.com/

Bofus

"Kudzu" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have seen a shaft and bearing assembly in one of the catalogs and now I
> can't find it. This is a metal shaft with threaded ends that you attach
your
> pulley and electric motor. It's threaded on the ends to accept grinding
> wheels or buffs and uses cheaper sleeve bearing pillow blocks. Who sells
> those?
>
> I want to build a cabinet with a couple of these mounted with stones and
> buffing wheels.
>
> --
> Kudzu <*\\><
> The man that always tells the truth never has to remember what he said
>
>

JW

Joe Willmann

in reply to "Kudzu" on 26/12/2003 7:20 AM

30/12/2003 5:29 PM

"Kudzu" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> I have seen a shaft and bearing assembly in one of the catalogs and
> now I can't find it. This is a metal shaft with threaded ends that you
> attach your pulley and electric motor. It's threaded on the ends to
> accept grinding wheels or buffs and uses cheaper sleeve bearing pillow
> blocks. Who sells those?
>
> I want to build a cabinet with a couple of these mounted with stones
> and buffing wheels.
>

Your basic Ace Hardware has some of them. At least mine does.

ND

"Norman D. Crow"

in reply to "Kudzu" on 26/12/2003 7:20 AM

26/12/2003 11:33 PM


"Silvan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Kudzu wrote:
>
> > I have seen a shaft and bearing assembly in one of the catalogs and now
I
> > can't find it. This is a metal shaft with threaded ends that you attach
>
> Lee Valley...
>
>
>
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?page=32960&category=1,43072,45939&abspage=1&ccurrency=2&SID=
>
or here http://www.grizzly.com/products/item.cfm?itemnumber=H3559

Nahmie

Sd

Silvan

in reply to "Kudzu" on 26/12/2003 7:20 AM

26/12/2003 7:27 PM

Kudzu wrote:

> I have seen a shaft and bearing assembly in one of the catalogs and now I
> can't find it. This is a metal shaft with threaded ends that you attach

Lee Valley...


http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?page=32960&category=1,43072,45939&abspage=1&ccurrency=2&SID=

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WL

"Wilson Lamb"

in reply to "Kudzu" on 26/12/2003 7:20 AM

26/12/2003 8:35 PM

I agree about the guards. Believe it or not, it's cheaper to buy a chinese
grinder than to do what you say, UNLESS you want to build a very slow wheel,
which is less dangerous. Buffing is another matter, though, so go for it.
Try Harbor Freight and Gillom, or Gillion, a homemade tool outfit. Also
W.W. Grainger. Arbors run from about $20 (sleeve bearings) to $40 (ball
bearings). A washing machine or dryer motor will drive it (free). The
trick is to find a motor with mounting base, which a dryer is more likely to
have. There used to be an outfit that sold mounting bases from a classified
ad in the back of Popular Mechanics magazine. I don't know if they are
still there.

You can, of course, buy an arbor that mounts directly on a motor shaft. I
don't buff, so I don't know if 1800 RPM will do what you want.
Wilson
"Kudzu" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have seen a shaft and bearing assembly in one of the catalogs and now I
> can't find it. This is a metal shaft with threaded ends that you attach
your
> pulley and electric motor. It's threaded on the ends to accept grinding
> wheels or buffs and uses cheaper sleeve bearing pillow blocks. Who sells
> those?
>
> I want to build a cabinet with a couple of these mounted with stones and
> buffing wheels.
>
> --
> Kudzu <*\\><
> The man that always tells the truth never has to remember what he said
>
>


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