Diy Brushless Spindle

[njhussey]

Just been trying (and I stress trying!!!) to do some machining of my lead screws in my lunch break...think I'll get someone else to do it! The jaws are worn and it takes ages to get them to clamp so it spins true and I had to shim the cutting tool so it was somewhere near the correct height...results of 3/4 hr below lol

[blackburn mark]

Just been trying (and I stress trying!!!) to do some machining

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)

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