Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] re: disassembling steppers was Re: re:Re: My CNC Project

Amen!
Dan
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From: ballendo@... <ballendo@...>
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Date: Sunday, January 07, 2001 1:33 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] 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...
>
>'******************************************************************
>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.
>
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