Another Double Bearing Quill Question

[alberrt2]

Shopsmith has a great price on the double bearing quill upgrade this weekend. The shopsmith catalogue indicates that the quill cannot be used for a gilmer belt machine, however the sale indicates that it can be used for all older mark v's. Has anyone upgraded the gilmer based machine to a two bearing quill?

[billmayo]

Skip Campbell skip@mkctools.com did sell a double bearing quill for the Gilmer drive. I find that installing the bearing 202KDD5 ($13.26) from ebatmus.com works very well as a quill bearing on the older Shopsmiths. This is a more precision (C1) and higher quality bearing than the original bearing used.

Bill Mayo

Shopsmith has a great price on the double bearing quill upgrade this weekend. The shopsmith catalogue indicates that the quill cannot be used for a gilmer belt machine, however the sale indicates that it can be used for all older mark v's. Has anyone upgraded the gilmer based machine to a two bearing quill?

[PTWFE]

Bill do you know if all the factory double bearing quills had the same size bearings? Do you have a recommendation for those?

Thanks.