re: disassembling steppers was Re: re:Re: My CNC Project

Rich,

You MAY be lucky! I hope so! But I want to again Warn the list.
Taking apart a stepper motor is not generally a good idea. In
addition to the possibility of ruining, or drastically reducing
torque output of the stepper, there is the issue of thermal
expansion. Steppers get hot! If you have taken out the ability to
deal with this, you may have intermittant, hard to trace problems.

Hope this helps.

Ballendo

P.S. Nothing personal is intended, or implied. You did say you were
new to this...

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Only the endcaps were slipped off. I did not slide out the rotor. The
bearings are large ball (1/4" id) with a wave spring washer to force
the rotor to one end and put on a side load. I added
2 thin washers to almost close up the wave washer. Before, it was
very easy to shove the shaft into the motor. All very clean. As long
as the coupling will stay put, there's no reason why 2 perfectly good
motor bearings shouldn't do the job. Rich D.