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Old 10-23-2012, 10:29 AM   #155
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Re: Project "Sweet 16"

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Originally Posted by skymangs View Post
So I feel pretty stupid. I bought new bearings and brought home another set of used rotors. Still the outer bearings didn't fit. After being quite frustrated, I happend to run my hand over the spindle. There were burrs sticking up from the keyway cut. I just assumed that the machining would have been done after the keyway was cut, but I guess not. I took a file and smoothed out the burrs, and the bearings slid right on.

So all is well, project progressing as it should.


That is the correct order of machining. they just didn't deburr the parts.
I ran a machine shop in the 80s.
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