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An Easy Way to Create DIY Bearing Mounts

By Rain Noe - June 1, 2018

in DIY

When building a contraption or shop jig that incorporates a frequently-rotated part, it can be useful to integrate bearings. Those of you with access to 3D printers can readily whip up a gewgaw to do so…

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…but those without must rely on more brutish and unreliable methods, like a pressure fit.

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The pressure fit is of course contingent on you having a drill press (or dead-accurate hand drill skills), and a Forstner bit that happens to be just a smidge under the diameter of your bearing.

But what if the difference between your bits and your bearings is, if you'll pardon the pun, intolerable? Tinkerer Mikkel Pedersen solves it this way:

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A bearable solution.

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Scott Brown

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you left out cnc router/mills for making perfect pressure fit bearing pockets, but this is a nice approach with or without fancy tooling - the bearings would be much easier to remove or replace for prototypes and short-use fixtures.

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