@@WideVisionMetalFab Sorry for the delayed reply...... Brilliant!!! I had never considered how bearings were assembled... and so dissembled.... but your tip is superb.... Saved a clients £3000 bicycle using this method! Thank you
Thank you! Thank you! I have been struggling all afternoon to get a seized bearing off, getting no where, but not having tried to dismantle the bearing. Even the bearing shop where I got the new replacement didn't suggest this as a method. Thank you for sharing!
I'm going to try it. The equipment repair company in my area wants to charge me $189 to send a tech just to see if it's something that they can repair.
My uncle was a welder and fabricator in Florida for 20 plus years till the farmers and others he worked for were bought out for land development. I guess what always amazes me was how much one group of people could wear out, wreck, and destroy equipment and another group of people could repair, rebuild, and make things almost bullet proof so others could go out and do it again. Love your channel, love your videos, give Dakota a scratch and a pat for me..
I have been at farm machinery repair quite a while and bearing removal usually involves a blue flame your way is alot safer especially on combines and balers! Thanks for these videos
Holy smokes, you have no idea how this video saved my ass in major way. I did this in tiny (I think it is the smallest bearing available) and worked perfectly. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
And when removing inter race , no need to cut completely down to the shaft, get close on two opposite sides take a dull cold chisel one or two good whacks n poof off it comes.
Helped me out big time trying to get a seized bearing off a dishwasher motor shaft with no way to get under it. Immediately ran over to my work bench and had it off in minutes. This will be a $10 fix for a $260 motor your not supposed to repair. Ha! Thanks immensely!
I've dealt with a great many stuck bearings and have never thought to dismantle them. As a last resort, we've always cut them, either with a torch or metabo. I specific remember spending a few hours one evening with my work partner crouched under a conveyor drive sprocket trying to cut overhead at a recessed flange bearing with a cut off wheel. We managed to get it, but I wonder if we could have utilized your method. I will remember this tip. Thank you for sharing.
Very good tip for sure! When I have a bearing that is sacrificial and isn't cooperating I prefer the smoke wrench, but you can't always burn one out. I'll remember this technique for sure. Thanks for posting the video, love the content.
It's a cool way of getting something done without doing a lot of work. You should do a video on your hydraulic post hole digger. How you made it and how it works.
I really hadn't thought about there being any interest in the digger. Somebody asked me to do a video on the truck hydraulics around the time I moved, and I keep forgetting to make that video, which would fit right in with the digger. Maybe I should get out there and record!
Good 1 Matt. Great maneuver, when I was a young buck working on old rusty fertilizer equipment the old hot wrench got them apart I'll tell you. Got to where I could wash the race right off the shaft with nary a mark. Laying on your back on a truck bed, hopper full of fertilizer farmer going crazy because it's going to rain. Oh them were the day's.
I'm dealing with a similar situation, but I have a roller bearing that is recessed almost an inch into the case, and 1) the shaft can only come out one end because the bearing at the other end sits in a recess cast into the case, and 2) there is no room inside the case to drive the bearing out from behind. Additionally there is a ring gear on the shaft which engages a gear on a shaft at the bottom of the case, and this makes it impossible to drive the whole assembly out the open end. Short of cutting the shaft in two, I've run out of ideas. Trying to drill through the race sounds like a formidable project.
These days, you can easily use a high-speed (28,000 rpm) Dremel, with diamond burr installed. I am about to do this, because this bearing is inside a car Steering Wheel (top). It will take a while, but (once the Inner & Outer Race has been cut), the old Bearing will simply prise upwards - and out. It isn't possible to remove the whole (splined) Steering Shaft, and the shaft also passes through this bearing. Cannot use heat in this location. New (replacement) bearing is cheap, and easy to replace - once the old one has been cut and removed. Hope that this may help someone in a similar situation.
I see 4 tack welds at square plate which will have to be cut anyway to get inner flange out which is inside the square tube plate. Good info on bearing take down.
Right about the BIGGER bearings being more fun to destroy, more bearing pieces than finger pieces...lol You just need to carry a set of smaller tools for the smaller ones, dental picks set, smaller drifts, scew drivers, etc... are quite useful for that purpose
You always get a thumbs up from me. I think it's suspended like this. Stay cool as you can and a fine way not to demolish something like I do most of the time! GBWYall!
This bearing his an excentric bearing assemply. Did you even try to remove the locking colar (metal ring that's locked by allen key studs and that needs to be rotated about 1/4turn anticlockwise) ?
I always wondered how they got the balls between the races. Some ball-bearings don't have a cage. I think they have another way to load the balls, like a spot on the races with a depression plus a little tilt action, but forgot the details.
I have taken bearings apart like that just screwing around to see how they were put together, but I thought the inner race had to be tipped to get it out. I did not know it would just slide out.
Bicycle bearings are loose and run in a race in a sea of grease. I think I could replace a modern bearing, but getting the thing out would be -- problematic. So I learned about the anatomy of bearing cages.
I'm at 1:02 and I would at this moment take something REALLY hard like a center punch at 40 degrees and made of tungsten and hit that bearing with a sledge. Bye bye. BUT ......... from now on I am going to do this. It's WAY better than my method. Great video.
Can this method be done with pillow block bearings? Or just generally larger ones with heavy shafts? I’m a weld/fab apprentice and have only encountered bearings that I need to use an angle grinder/hammer to remove, and sometimes use a torch to get a new one on the shaft. I’m a first year so still got a long way to go, any tips would be appreciated! Thanks
In my case the center ring of a bearing is rusted to the axis of a electric motor. There is no space for a puller and using an angle grinder will damage the electric contact ring. I've tried heating the ring so it expands, but so far no results... And sadly your trick doesn't apply to my case...
Just think of the hundreds, no thousands, of ball bearings that will be rolling around on workshop floors worldwide as a result of people watching this video and practising it themselves ;-)
Get the gas out. Pop the seal,Melt the cage. Blow out the balls and cut the inner race off the shaft, They are 2 different metals and can be cut without gouging.
In the combine example I mentioned, the customer was adamant I not use a torch since the machine was full of straw. And honestly, it's easier and faster to just take apart the bearing.
I have been at farm machinery repair quite a while and bearing removal usually involves a blue flame your way is alot safer especially on combines and balers! Thanks for these videos .
You're welcome! The repair job I was doing for the customer was on a New Holland T99 combine. It was completely full of straw as the blower belt broke and the shaker bearings went out. (Probably the bearings going out caused the belt to break.) So the customer was very nervous about me using anything that might start it on fire, to say the least!
Brilliant!! I was about to head in with an angle grinder to cut what I could reach.... But I'll try your way first!! Thank you!
Good luck! :)
@@WideVisionMetalFab Sorry for the delayed reply...... Brilliant!!! I had never considered how bearings were assembled... and so dissembled.... but your tip is superb.... Saved a clients £3000 bicycle using this method! Thank you
It is only obvious and easy when you watch someone who is competent explain how to to it. You did very well thank you.
Dan Bentler
Many thanks for the kind words!
Thank you! Thank you! I have been struggling all afternoon to get a seized bearing off, getting no where, but not having tried to dismantle the bearing. Even the bearing shop where I got the new replacement didn't suggest this as a method. Thank you for sharing!
I'm going to try it. The equipment repair company in my area wants to charge me $189 to send a tech just to see if it's something that they can repair.
My uncle was a welder and fabricator in Florida for 20 plus years till the farmers and others he worked for were bought out for land development.
I guess what always amazes me was how much one group of people could wear out, wreck, and destroy equipment and another group of people could repair, rebuild, and make things almost bullet proof so others could go out and do it again.
Love your channel, love your videos, give Dakota a scratch and a pat for me..
I have been at farm machinery repair quite a while and bearing removal usually involves a blue flame your way is alot safer especially on combines and balers! Thanks for these videos
Holy smokes, you have no idea how this video saved my ass in major way. I did this in tiny (I think it is the smallest bearing available) and worked perfectly. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
And when removing inter race , no need to cut completely down to the shaft, get close on two opposite sides take a dull cold chisel one or two good whacks n poof off it comes.
Very true!
Helped me out big time trying to get a seized bearing off a dishwasher motor shaft with no way to get under it. Immediately ran over to my work bench and had it off in minutes. This will be a $10 fix for a $260 motor your not supposed to repair. Ha! Thanks immensely!
Awesome! It's good to hear my efforts help others! :)
You're a lifesaver, saved me a lot of headache on a stuck bearing on a baler shaft. Cheers from SW Nebraska.
I learned that little trick many years ago fixing my old truck in the back yard when my options were very few.
Great tip, that could prevent the machine catching fire from flaming grease balls dripping after going at it with a torch. Great videos, keep it up!
Fire prevention is a good reason for doing it this way!
What fun is that says the man that has set himself on fire a few times. LOL
I've dealt with a great many stuck bearings and have never thought to dismantle them. As a last resort, we've always cut them, either with a torch or metabo. I specific remember spending a few hours one evening with my work partner crouched under a conveyor drive sprocket trying to cut overhead at a recessed flange bearing with a cut off wheel. We managed to get it, but I wonder if we could have utilized your method. I will remember this tip. Thank you for sharing.
You just took saved me taking years off my life trying to free a shaft
Hi Matthew, Thats the way to do it, simple if one know how to do it, all the best.
Thanks!
excellent, I have not done that much work with bearings, I know most of the stuff is pretty simple just need to be exposed to it.
Thanks Dave! And very true. Just because it's simple doesn't mean it's obvious.
Very good tip for sure! When I have a bearing that is sacrificial and isn't cooperating I prefer the smoke wrench, but you can't always burn one out. I'll remember this technique for sure. Thanks for posting the video, love the content.
Smoke wrench sure makes quick work of it, too! But, yep, can't always use it. Especially when it's on a combine full of straw.
It's a cool way of getting something done without doing a lot of work. You should do a video on your hydraulic post hole digger. How you made it and how it works.
I really hadn't thought about there being any interest in the digger. Somebody asked me to do a video on the truck hydraulics around the time I moved, and I keep forgetting to make that video, which would fit right in with the digger. Maybe I should get out there and record!
That could be a game changer. Love it.
Thanks!
Good 1 Matt. Great maneuver, when I was a young buck working on old rusty fertilizer equipment the old hot wrench got them apart I'll tell you. Got to where I could wash the race right off the shaft with nary a mark. Laying on your back on a truck bed, hopper full of fertilizer farmer going crazy because it's going to rain. Oh them were the day's.
Fertilizer is guaranteed to make stuff rust together!
I'm dealing with a similar situation, but I have a roller bearing that is recessed almost an inch into the case, and 1) the shaft can only come out one end because the bearing at the other end sits in a recess cast into the case, and 2) there is no room inside the case to drive the bearing out from behind. Additionally there is a ring gear on the shaft which engages a gear on a shaft at the bottom of the case, and this makes it impossible to drive the whole assembly out the open end. Short of cutting the shaft in two, I've run out of ideas. Trying to drill through the race sounds like a formidable project.
These days, you can easily use a high-speed (28,000 rpm) Dremel, with diamond burr installed. I am about to do this, because this bearing is inside a car Steering Wheel (top). It will take a while, but (once the Inner & Outer Race has been cut), the old Bearing will simply prise upwards - and out. It isn't possible to remove the whole (splined) Steering Shaft, and the shaft also passes through this bearing. Cannot use heat in this location. New (replacement) bearing is cheap, and easy to replace - once the old one has been cut and removed. Hope that this may help someone in a similar situation.
Never thought of doing it that way. Usually always went to the torch it off method. Thanks
You're welcome!
I see 4 tack welds at square plate which will have to be cut anyway to get inner flange out which is inside the square tube plate. Good info on bearing take down.
I was thinking, oh yea, I know this trick.
I didn't. Great tip.
Thanks! I'm glad I could show you a new trick! :)
very cool trick sir, never have attempted taking one apart before, but looking forward to trying it !
Thanks Gary!
Thnaks for this video. I have an old gokart with encapsulated bearings on the rear axle and no way to get them out. Ill try this.
Is there anyway you could do a video on each type of flange housing on how to install and when to use each one?
Right about the BIGGER bearings being more fun to destroy, more bearing pieces than finger pieces...lol
You just need to carry a set of smaller tools for the smaller ones, dental picks set, smaller drifts, scew drivers, etc... are quite useful for that purpose
That's a good one for the mental tool box. Thanks mate!
You're welcome!
Neat trick. Like you said I never even given that idea a thought
I'm glad I could share! :)
You always get a thumbs up from me. I think it's suspended like this. Stay cool as you can and a fine way not to demolish something like I do most of the time! GBWYall!
Thanks! Although, sometimes it's more fun to demolish it all! :)
This bearing his an excentric bearing assemply. Did you even try to remove the locking colar (metal ring that's locked by allen key studs and that needs to be rotated about 1/4turn anticlockwise) ?
I always wondered how they got the balls between the races. Some ball-bearings don't have a cage. I think they have another way to load the balls, like a spot on the races with a depression plus a little tilt action, but forgot the details.
Thanks for the tip!
Good tip.matt. Did that a few times over the years.
Thanks for dropping by Colin! :) I hope all is well up your way!
Fantastic description and brilliant idea !
I have used this trick several times!
Awesome! :)
Matthew, many thanks for a cool video. I hope I don't run into such a problem, but I'm prepared if I do.
You're welcome!
I have taken bearings apart like that just screwing around to see how they were put together, but I thought the inner race had to be tipped to get it out. I did not know it would just slide out.
Maybe all the ones I take apart are wore out enough no tipping is required? I've never tried a new one.
Title: Dakota removes stuck bearing. Then I remembered he doesn't have thumbs.
LOL! Maybe, Dakota supervises human removing stuck bearing.
Well that's how bearings are assembled.
My total experience with bearings is bicycle bearings :) so I learned a great deal from this video.
I'm kinda surprised to hear that, but I'm glad I could share with you!
Bicycle bearings are loose and run in a race in a sea of grease. I think I could replace a modern bearing, but getting the thing out would be -- problematic. So I learned about the anatomy of bearing cages.
Thanks for the advice Matt
I'm at 1:02 and I would at this moment take something REALLY hard like a center punch at 40 degrees and made of tungsten and hit that bearing with a sledge. Bye bye.
BUT ......... from now on I am going to do this. It's WAY better than my method.
Great video.
Thankyou
what do you do if the bearings are like 2:43 or 2:53 ?
Very good!
Thanks!
Thanks a million times.
That is a great idea I’m going to try it out. Great video nice to see video from you hope to see more if possible
I think it's fun to dismantle the bearings! :)
Thanks - just the info I needet! Cheers from Denmark
Can this method be done with pillow block bearings? Or just generally larger ones with heavy shafts? I’m a weld/fab apprentice and have only encountered bearings that I need to use an angle grinder/hammer to remove, and sometimes use a torch to get a new one on the shaft. I’m a first year so still got a long way to go, any tips would be appreciated! Thanks
Very Helpful, Thanks.
Thanks for sharing
You're welcome Chuck!
One day I will use this idea thanks!!!
Great method. Thank You Matt
J8m
You're welcome Jim!
thanks ! you helped me alot , i will give it a try
In my case the center ring of a bearing is rusted to the axis of a electric motor. There is no space for a puller and using an angle grinder will damage the electric contact ring. I've tried heating the ring so it expands, but so far no results...
And sadly your trick doesn't apply to my case...
Thanks for the video.
Enjoyed and learned! Cool trick.
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
interesting and handy.. thanks a ton... cheers.
Very neat trick!
I'm glad I could share!
And if all efforts fell break out the BFH and make it submit. :)
That too! :)
Severely about the head and ears!
And the torches work too have done that a few times
Really useful 👍
Just think of the hundreds, no thousands, of ball bearings that will be rolling around on workshop floors worldwide as a result of people watching this video and practising it themselves ;-)
Oh danger!!
Fuck genius man, Im sitting with this exact damn problem. thank you
Thank you it was good thing.
You're welcome!
Nice. Thanks.
That would be easy for me. I can tear up an anvil in a sandbox.
LOL! I have a friend like that. There are times when I give him a call. :)
Remove bearing race from spindle
defying gravity
Get the gas out. Pop the seal,Melt the cage. Blow out the balls and cut the inner race off the shaft, They are 2 different metals and can be cut without gouging.
Doesn't help at all I have a stuck needle bearing type in my swingarm for the pivot pin that runs thru the motor as well
Or you could of broke the lock collar loose and beat it out
whiskey glasses
Take. A. Torch
In the combine example I mentioned, the customer was adamant I not use a torch since the machine was full of straw. And honestly, it's easier and faster to just take apart the bearing.
Give me 2 minutes and an oxy acetylene torch.
And in those 2 minutes, you'd also burn the combine full of straw to the ground. Using a torch isn't always an option.
I have been at farm machinery repair quite a while and bearing removal usually involves a blue flame your way is alot safer especially on combines and balers! Thanks for these videos .
You're welcome! The repair job I was doing for the customer was on a New Holland T99 combine. It was completely full of straw as the blower belt broke and the shaker bearings went out. (Probably the bearings going out caused the belt to break.) So the customer was very nervous about me using anything that might start it on fire, to say the least!
Wide Vision Metal Fab
Every farm should have a combine, if there’s nothing to do you can always go work on the combine 😉
Wide Vision Metal Fab
Every farm should have a combine, if there’s nothing to do you can always go work on the combine 😉
Ain't that the truth!