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Neat way of creating the bearing slides...
Hello All-
I was building my bearing slide assemblies this weekend and used an interesting way to get all the bearings in the correct locations.
In the past, when I made the bearing slide assemblies for my previous cnc machine, I just measured the locations where the bearing assemblies needed to go. This worked ok, but some of the bearing assemblies were located "just off" where they needed to be.
So, this time, I used a different method. I will try and explain with the pictures below...
Image 1 - Mark the horizontal locations where the bearing assemblies will be on your aluminum angle.
Image 2 - Using another piece of scrap aluminum angle, position it behind and above the marked aluminum angle. Place a bearing you will be using on the marked aluminum angle and up against the "fence-piece" of scrap angle over one of the marks you made.
Image 3 - Use a "brad-point" drill bit the same diameter as the inside diameter of the bearing.
Image 4 - Slide the bearing back and forth a bit keeping pressure against the back scrap aluminum fence. Push down on the drill bit enough to "mark" the aluminum. Because the bearing is rolling against the back fence, it will create a perfectly horizontal line.
Image 5 - The location is now marked. I then took this to the drill press and used the same brad-point bit to drill the hole. Yes, you still have to be pretty precise to line up the tip of the bit with the intersecting lines, but I found this to me more accurate than just measuring with a ruler/scale.
Image 6 - The finished bearing slide assembly. It sits perfectly flush with the linear pipe and slides like a dream.
Hope this helps.
Brad
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