DIY Air Bearings
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2019
- Some other resources relating to air bearings + this project:
Dan Gelbart's lathe - • High precision air bea...
New Way has published lots of great information here - www.newwayairbearings.com/tec...
Tom Lipton's primer on lapping - • Precision Lapping 101
Rob Renzetti's video on aluminum oxide toolroom stones (inspiration for trying ceramics) - • PRECISION GROUND TOOLR...
Feel free to get in touch with any ideas or applications! 
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Hi David, I’m an engineer at New Way. You did a great job with these bearings. I’m shocked you were able achieve sufficient flatness with 600 grit sandpaper.
Only just now found this in my feed; good job (for once), YT algorithm!
What a great project, thanks for sharing the results of all your research about the type of graphite, critical dimensions, etc. Besides being fascinating in itself, it’ll save many, many people hours of frustration and wasted money finding the right graphite.
Great, great project!
Thanks for taking the time in making this video, i saw dan gelbarts video of his lathe years ago and really appreciate seeing how diy air bearing can be made
Really great explanation of the obstacles you overcame! Thank you!
Excellent work David. A couple months back I experimented with using carborundum/alumina aquarium bubblers. Indeed, lapping them flat was difficult and required a diamond surface. They produced substantial and very fine bubbles once in the 1000 grit range or so. Regarding the radial attempt, you made what would be classified more accurately as an "air bushing". For likelier success without exact tooling, try partial circumferential coverage using 3 or 4 individual arc segments equally spaced. In doing my experimenting I didn't build a cage and sealed 5 faces using resin, and while lapping I supplied air so as to "flush" the debris - it helped enormously in keeping the abrasive surface fresh, but I've also not experienced with such a great lubricant as graphite so it may not be as helpful. I see what I believe was your supplier on eBay and am snagging a box. There are some good papers on the effects of the "dead air" cavity and plenum shape, btw. Get in touch if you'd like to collaborate - my application is in the nanopositioning realm as well as conventional machine tools.
Cool idea! I will try this too.
- Adam
This is great!! I was sent by Applied Science as well. And man, I almost can't tell you 2 apart vocally!! Your videos are great btw. Not sure if you'd like for your channel to grow, but I'm betting it will become something everyone will love.
Just finished mine! Great job!
This is great! Have you considered looking at the non porous type air bearings?
Awesome stuff!
Super interesting video! 👍
Very nice project. I like fooling around with this type of stuff as well.
Really cool! Good job explaining.
any recommendations on the air supply, what pump to get etc..
Awesome stuff, I used to install/service CMMs.
Very interesting. For the air bushing could you used a reamer when boring the graphite?
Awesome video, keep up.
you remind me of Ben Krasnow from Applied Science! Great content! Keep up the vids :)
He was first on this video. XD
Good news I searched DIY air bearing and your channel popped up on top. Is there a reason alot of people are using low psi "60ish". If the air bearing load is surface area multiplied by the atmospheres of pressure is the plenum the limiting factor of pressure? I have a small machine shop and am thinking of building a high precision lathe.
Thank you!!!
I wonder if air bearings could run on the outside corners of T or V 2020 aluminum extrusion. For much of 3d printing it would make for simpler designs, easier parking for transportation (just turn off the air and it locks in place) and fewer wearing parts over time.
Will this work with an aquarium air stone ?
This is an exceptionally well done project and video (English is not my native language)
Another thing; to measure deformation and condition of the bearing surface under load you would probably get pretty far by bearing it on top of an optical flat
Great work. But how to prevent carbon powder falls of graphite?
Do you have some kind of equitation to calculate for amount of psi to weight for lift to happen?
Any chance we can get the cad file to make the housing? Thanks buddy.
what advantage does porous material have over just taking a flat plate and drilling a lot of small holes?
nice work.
can we get the .STEP of the design..?
looking forward to hear from you
Can graphite be used to reduce salts from water
Brilliant little video and best part very clear.....still find it strange that i when i was in need i found heaps of random info.
Also i want to know who down-voted at least leave a comment why as long its not abuse
A small number of down votes should not be taken seriously.
The upvote/downvote buttons on cell phone is just millimeters apart,
some people even flipped these buttons by accident.
Clever.
What is the cfm these use at 60 psi
Try aquarium air-stones?
Would love to make some of those linear air bearings for a 3d Printer X Y gantry. I bet they are very quiet while in operation?
Air bearings are actually pretty noisy on their own (they're the source of the constant hiss in this video: ruclips.net/video/sFrVdoOhu1Q/видео.html), and that's before factoring in compressor noise.
And why do people keep saying they'd be awesome for 3D printers? Sure, using air bearings could make your positioning system a few microns more accurate than cheap linear guides, but who cares when the remainder of the system has tolerances measured in the hundreds of microns? Your time/money will be far better spent in a myriad other places first.
Personally, I'd love to try my hand at building an air bearing mill or lathe spindle. It seems like you could build yourself something really nice for pretty cheap using air bearings and carbon fiber, and since the only ways to buy yourself steel-working capability is to play eBay roulette or drop >$5k on something commercial, it's a project that might actually make some economic sense.
@@irrelevantfish1978 once again though in the case of a mill or lathe your argument about the 3d printer is still an issue...
@@samuelschuur7044 I'm afraid I can't figure out what you're trying to say. Would you please clarify?
@@irrelevantfish1978 I meant that for the most part in the mill you propose your precision is not limited by the air bearings but really your other component choices just like your example with the 3d printer.
@@samuelschuur7044 That's true, but mills and lathes are almost always more precise than 3D printers, usually enough that air bearing spindles' lower runout will lead to a noticeable improvement. But even if that's not the case, and the machine is a bucket of backlash and missed steps, you'll still improve machine dynamics, leading to longer tool life, better surface finish, and faster material removal.
I've thought about using porous Terra Cotta or mixing starch/flour with a non-porous ceramic slurry to create a controlled porous ceramic substrate for a hydrostatic air bearing using water at really high pressures, this should increase both load capacity and stiffness by several orders of magnitude compared to air bearings.
Dude you are cool
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That's really cool. Based on your experiments do you have any thoughts on potential challenges of making a high speed CNC spindle using this kind of air bearings (but probably Ben Krasnow's technique for boring precision-fit round holes by cutting grooves and creating a 'file' from one of the spindle bar stock pieces)? Like say, 'top three' problems?
why is the sound so low
Are you Tom Lipton's kid?
shame ya cant hear the video
Nice, some how I think this is going to be the rage in 3D printing in couple of years 🤔
I agree, I feel like these shouldn't be all that expensive to make reasonably accurate for 3D printing and would allow printers to move quickly with less friction for high speed printing.
I doubt that consumer grade printers would ever use air bearings as the ball bearing rails are just 100% sufficient for the job. The problems lie elsewhere. Also the real linear rails are not advantageous for 3d printers either, the round rod system is almost as rigid in that application and the rigidity isn't an issue really
Great video. You must start a discord community...
@:52, i should call her.....
Вот на чём должен был летать гиперлуп, а не на магнитном подвесе.
Sound is so low I can't hear what you hahe to say. A pity because I wanted to hear it.