C&P Roller Bearings

Sheeprints
on 21 Oct 13 (17:30)

I have a C&P 10x15 motorized press with four rollers: two with good bearings and two with bad bearings. I’m wondering if there is a supplier that sells the bearings and could tell me how to replace them, or if the entire roller needs to be replaced once the bearings are shot?

Thanks in advance!
Beth

keelan
on 21 Oct 13 (18:11)

Updated 21 Oct 13 (18:12)

Beth,

It would seem that you have a Craftsman press, a very nice press.

The good news: the bearings should be quite easy to remove from the saddle, and they’re just a slip fit on the roller shaft. They should be easy to remove and replace.

The bad news: the problem is that they’re a very uncommon style and size of bearing, and the only application they seemed to have was in Craftsman presses. There is a supplier for the roller bearings, and I have the information, but it is on a hard drive that is on its way across Canada for data recovery at the moment.

Finally, the bearings aren’t very precise, so they can take quite a bit of abuse before needing to be replaced. I had some that were badly caked in goop and rust, and I couldn’t rotate them by hand. I soaked them in Evaporust for a while, and then washed the remaining greasy gunk out with hot water. I followed up by baking them at 150 degrees in my oven, which melted more nasty stuff out. After they cooled down, I doused them in oil to deter rusting, then packed the balls with grease. They seem to be as good as new now.

dicharry
on 21 Oct 13 (21:44)

There’s these:

http://www.applied.com/apps/commerce/catalog/catalog.do?e=10&s=3043023&r...

And this thread:

http://www.briarpress.org/24188

Hope this helps.
Brad.

Sheeprints
on 22 Oct 13 (09:41)

Thank you both so much!!!