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Another Double Bearing Quill Question
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:09 am
by 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?
Gilmer double bearing quill
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:51 am
by 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
alberrt2 wrote: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?
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:14 pm
by 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.