Thanks guys, I'm getting old and lazy I guess. Years ago, if I didn't have a tool, I generally just made one, but I lived nearly an hour from the nearest town of any size (with decent tool stores) and had no money. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif Now I want "the right tool for the right job" and apparently that has clouded my mind. I made a tool and had it out in less time than it took me to make the first stop looking for a pilot bearing puller type tool. <sigh>
My version was a piece of 1" x 0.125 round scrap, about 10" long, and with a 45* cut on one end, square on the other. Took another piece of cold roll 1" x 1" x 0.125 strap scrap and welded it on the angled end offset toward the point of the 45*. Then ground the point to a profile that let it slide right into the machined recess and get a full contact patch on the race about 3/8" long, with the edge beveled 45* so it fit right up flush inside the spindle (if that makes sense). Worked beautifully even though the lips of the race were already broken off. This will be going in the pile with all the other little widgets I’ve made that have multiple uses, I can see it coming in handy for lots of stuff where I’ve used drifts, chisels, punches, pry bars, and screw drivers before…
As for splitting a race like that with a chisel, I thought of that but it was so hard to get too, and the chisel just wanted to slip at that angle, so I abandoned it for "the right tool"...
FortCollins:
I’m very interested in your solution, but I don’t understand what you did. Just for my education, can you explain differently so I can understand?
Thanks! /forums/images/graemlins/thumb.gif
[Edit] Here is a 2D drawing of what I made... Simple but effective. The little edge sticking out is not completely sharp (It's not like a knife, very slight radius, just a few thou) and is rounded so it fits in the contour of the machined recess. Hope that makes more sense.
