Bearings for Elu MOF96E

[mseries]

I'm about to embark on changing the bearings on my MOF96E, I know I can get sets of bearings from various places for about £15, but branded generic bearings are much cheaper, I read on another forum that the bearings are coded 6003 and 608, can anyone confirm this ?

thanks

 

[acewoodturner]

If you take them out there should be codes on them. You can take them to a local bearing dealer (I use Bearing Services Ltd0 and they will know exactly which one to supplu. Get good quality ones and you shouldn't have to replace them for years. Dewalt use the cheapest and worst bearings you could possibly buy. If they used good quality ones and put the price up by a tenner the dw625ek would be the best router on the market.

 

[Shrubby]

The bearing code from the original Elu manual are:
608 ZZ
6003 ZZ
the ZZ code means two metal seals rather than rubber seals or open bearings.
The last pair of SKF brand cost me less than £!0 from an Ebay bearing supplier
Don't be tempted by budget bearings, Good makers are SKF ,***, Nachi and Koyo
Push the bearings inner race onto the shaft with a small tube, I use a pillar drill as a press
Matt

 

[mseries]

The bearing code from the original Elu manual are:
608 ZZ
6003 ZZ
the ZZ code means two metal seals rather than rubber seals or open bearings.
Matt

thanks, not sure where my manual is. Last seen when we 'tidied up' last year !!!

 

[Deejay]

Morning mseries

I've used Simply Bearings in the past (no connection) and had good service from them.

Have a look at ...

http://simplybearings.co.uk/shop/faq.php?cID=1

There's a lot of useful stuff on their site.

Pop your codes into the search box and see what they offer.

Cheers

Dave

 

[mseries]

Thanks for all you help everyone. I ordered some SKF 608ZZ and 6003ZZ from an eBay seller. I thought while I was in there, my router, I might as well replace the brushes so I ordered some of those too. Over the last two days I successfully replaced the bearings and the brushes using mailees instructions. It didn't really take me two days, I had a spare hour yesterday afternoon when I got as far as stripping my machine down and replacing the lower, larger bearing. Then today I replaced the upper and rebuilt with the new brushes. I hope to blog it at some point which will essentially be a rewrite of mailees notes with my own experience added in and some photos that I took during the process.

EDIT: I just spotted a typo in my original post which I have fixed, it's MOF96E not MOF95E and for the record mine is Type 3

 

[mseries]

Feel free to PM me if you would like a copy of my write up, it's now done.

You may download a copy from here in PDF format

 

[dickm]

Thanks for that, mseries; my 96s will probably need attention quite soon.

Out of curiosity, what is M a series of? Myfords?

 

[paul saunders]

My guess is it's a BMW , but I could be wrong ................ it's happened once before. ;D

 

[mseries]

It's nothing to do with cars nor machines. I don't own a car. M stands for Martin which is my name and I originally started using the name mseries to represent a suite of open source software that I was developing. it just stuck as my internet nickname.

 

[mseries]

Finally, I posted a few pictures of the process on my flickr page

 

[paul saunders]

Damn, that's twice I've been wrong now. Lol

 

[mseries]

In case anyone needs this and for my own reference. I have updates my document and also uploaded it to Google Drive. The file is much larger than before, around 380KB now since it contains some photos and an exploded diagram as well as links to annotated versions on my Flickr page. Nothing you have not seen before but if you downloaded my earlier draft you might prefer to replace it with this one which contains everything in one place !!

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B45O7o1 ... sp=sharing

or

http://www.mseries.plus.com/router-bearings.pdf

it's the same document, no need to click each one.

 

[Steve Maskery]

Hi Martin
That is a jolly useful document. I wish I'd had it when I did my 96.

You have one small typo, I think:

Top Bearing Refitting
Slip the new bearing over the shaft and using a socket of the correct side,

I assume you mean "correct size"?

Thank you for posting, you have contributed to the knowledge of mankind
S

 

[mseries]

Thanks Steve, duly updated.

I followed some instructions by mailee that I found on another forum, those were for a type 1 or 2 IIRC but without those I doubt I'll have attempted to take my machine apart.