mid-'50s shopsmith disassembling and cleaning -- help

[wlhayesmfs]

Edward your person did not make since to me on the bearing from what I know and was told. So went to one that I believe as an expect on rebuilding ER's and MKV like Bill Mayo and that is Skip. And his reply was as follows
The C" stands for clearance. C1 is a close tolerance bearing such as used
in machine spindles. C3 is what is commonly called a "motor grade"
bearing. They are looser fit to allow for the heat expansion in a motor
environment.
So I guess it depends on how close you want the tolerance or play in shaft and bearing.
Thanks
Bill

[riddler]

Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum and fear I have already made a critical mistake in a rushed attempt to improve the quill retraction performance (my recently acquired goldie had a stiff quill action). I had just finished cleaning the quill teeth by fulling extending the quill when it disengaged from the pinion (I apparently backed the quill retaining set screw out too far).:eek: The sound of the spring unwinding was a real bummer. In short, what do I do now? Thanks and I've already chalked it up to lessons learned. :o

[prmindartmouth]

I think you just remove the quill and then turn the handle one and a half full turns cockwise to recompress the spring. Hold the handle and reinsert the quill. The spring will now pull the quill in. Use the handle to restrain it so it goes in without a bang. Here is a much better answer, found after writing the above:
http://www.shopsmith.net/forums/showthread.htm?p=40994#post40994

EDIT:I was reinstalling a quill with unwound spring today and found that 3 turns were necessary on this 195? vintage model 500 to cock the spring.

[fiatben]

go watch the Sawdust session on fixing the quill at

http://www.shopsmithacademy.com/SS_Archives/SS124/SS1224_Shopsmith_Reborn_Pt4.htm

Between the video and the link posted by Dartmouth, you should have an easy time resetting the spring.

If not, we're all here just waiting to have a say.

[riddler]

Thanks guys. Because the spring disengaged from the wind screw I had to disassemble the quill feed mechanism--fairly simple once I could see what was going on inside. Its all hooked up and tensioned properly. Now that I have taken things apart and demystified them I am looking forward to better understanding other parts of the machine. Its great for this newbie to know there is a lifeline out there if I get into something I don't entirely understand.:)

[russsaw]

shoot that tools is 55 bucks now

http://www.harborfreight.com/bearing-separator-and-puller-set-93980.html