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How to pack and ship a spindle for repair without damaging it
A spindle that arrives with a bent shaft it did not have when it left is a bigger job than the one you sent. Ten minutes of packing avoids it.
Posts tagged “repair”
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Repair or replace? The real maths on a $4,000 spindle
A new spindle motor costs thousands and takes weeks to arrive. A rebuild costs a fraction and comes back in days. Here is how to decide, and the cases where replacement is the right answer.
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Five signs your router spindle is about to fail
Spindles rarely die without warning. Noise that climbs with rpm, a housing you cannot keep a hand on, a finish that has gone off: here is what each sign usually means, and when to pull the spindle.
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What ABEC 7 and ABEC 9 mean, and why bearing origin matters
Every rebuild we do uses matched ABEC 7 to ABEC 9 angular-contact bearings from SKF and the German and Italian makers. Here is what those words mean and why we will not use anything else.
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