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Author Topic: Know of an inexpensive press to set bearings? Frank Dubrois Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 896 From: Cleveland, OH Registered: Mar 2005 posted 06-20-2006 11:33 PM                    I'm wondering if anyone knows of an inexpensive (ebay) press I can get to set bearings into shutter assemblies? I'll most likely be scouting ebay, so if anyone has a model or brand, please let me know. I need something just for assemblies like the small shutter assemblies, nothing major. Thanks!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-21-2006 12:59 AM                     ..do a search on arbor presses ...kinda forget about eBone... - Monte  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-21-2006 07:40 AM                     For occasional use, if you have access to a drill press, you can generally use it as an arbor press if you close up the drill chuck all the way. Harbor Freight has some cheap arbor presses as well, like this half ton model. (I haven't actually ever used a Harbor Freight arbor press; their stuff is generally OK, but certainly not top notch. But it gets the job done cheap.) --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 06-21-2006 11:42 AM                     The harbor press works fine....we use it; it beats using a hammer  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-21-2006 05:59 PM                     quote: John Hawkinson Harbor Freight Oh... You mean Harbor Freight . To add further complications to the Chink press.. in order to properly use the Chink arbor press you will also need to have a machinist make for you a complete set of sleves and plugs for the shaft diameters and bearing O.D. diameters on the Christie so you don't ruin the shafts or the new bearings when you press them in place. Some try to use sockets of the closest diameter but that is risky and not the correct way to do it. Mark (Live from Forsyth,Montana)  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 06-21-2006 06:29 PM                     Mark is right...we have those seating "toys"...still better than having hammer and screwdriver marks on the bearing shields  |  IP: Logged

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