Diy Brushless Spindle

[njhussey]

owch!
you need to hassle your gaffer to let you do a nip n tuck on that lath

it might cut alli a bit better than that (fingers crossed)

hmmm I'll try one (need to buy a boring bar as don't have one) and see what happens. From the finish I got you'd have thought I'd stuck it in a drill and used a file!!

what outside diameter are you going for on your bearing housing ?
i went for 43mm so that if it all didnt work out with my brushless spindles i could just drop a kress into the 43mm clamp..... its worth doing some research because if i was starting again i think would go slightly larger than 43mm to avoid an issue whereby the brushless motor mounting screws (on the larger motor) clash with the 43mm di making it a bitch to simply drill all the way through or cut a flange to mount the housing to the motor (i think the 10mm shafted motor mounting screws are 22mm from the centre)

its worth thinking about because if i had gone 50mm as a standard for all my spindles life might have been a little more simple


i ended up turning the 50mm one down to 43mm to match the other two

Weeeeell....as it happens I've bought 50mm rounds so was going to stick to that...got to see if they've got the external jaws first else I'll get one of our local friendly machinists to make it...