Bearing Press "Rings" Set?

[Rockwall]

I have a few odds and ends rings from bearing press kits. I've found a master set of bearing seal (flat) discs but having problems finding ring/tubes for pressing random things. Sick of using sockets all the time.

Anyone know of a good master or better kit?

 

[kythri]

Something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00061SGPO/?tag=atomicindus08-20

??

 

[signcrafter]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JBK2OJO/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[2ndGearRubber]

Just to be clear: You have a shop press, and various sized discs for different diameters; such as below: I have these sets, lots of places sell identical ones. The large set will arrive with a damaged case. I filled mine with expanding foam and it made the base of it usable for storage. The lid had basically been broken off in transit.


Small/medium - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y5KX5TM/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Large/XL+ - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G549QHM/?tag=atomicindus08-20


However you have nothing to "receive" the item you are pressing out? You are also without a press ram-extension, leaving you to space your ram down with sockets, or constantly raise/lower your base plate?


For ram extensions, we have some adapters from an old brake lathe. Various sizes, works great. Something like these.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MJTW1Z4/?tag=atomicindus08-20

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WXMUXM8/?tag=atomicindus08-20

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015EEWUVI/?tag=atomicindus08-20


This is a great receiving cup set, awesome for control arm bushings. Various places rebrand it. It says not for use in shop presses, but I've maxed out the shop 20 ton a few times. They have a cut-out down one side, so you need to be careful not to crush them inwards pushing them through a hole that's too small. Break it free, then go down a size.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WD8QMVW/?tag=atomicindus08-20




Good quality bearing splitters are a must have; mine are proto. Various companies make them, sadly the quality ones are pretty much all expensive. USA made and a known brand are what you want. Set your width, and press you victim out the bottom of the press. I have a 4x4 setup underneath the press with a piece of plywood angled on it. As anything falls through, it hits the wood and gets defected into the wall.

As you press more things, you can save things and make your own adapters. For instance, after pressing out a wheel bearing, the old bearing outer race makes a perfect adapter for pressing in the new one. All of that, a master ball joint kit and on-car wheel bearing kit, and you can pretty much press anything you can fit in the press.




EDIT: signcrafter posted a nice on-car wheel bearing tool, which has some large receiving cups. The ball-joint press style cups are usually no more than 2.5 inches around. Kythri posted the set of those I have; along with an Astro C-frame kit.

 

[matt_i]

The best "kit" is a lathe and some pieces of various tube. Make whatever you need and nothing that you don't It seems like a cop-out answer but I've been doing it for awhile.

Sometimes you need one that's 7" long and that doesn't come in a kit. I have tig welded little rings or flats to a longer/larger ID piece of Sch40 pipe and just machined the ring to size.

 

[rsanter]

I have a bunch of cut sections of regular pipe.
Seems to do most of that I need

 

[Jason280]

This is the exact reason I pick up cheap random sockets, they seem to work just as well as anything else I've tried.

 

[Mr_B]

closest thing to ring tubes you after will be in bush removal/fitting kits .
I use some of those on the press but like other member suggested good quality pipe assortment finished on a lathe sorts most of it out .

 

[BillK]

I have a bin full of old bearing races that I have saved over the years that work perfectly for most things. Do you know anyone at an auto repair shop ? See if you can get some out of the scrap pile.

 

[Snaparxon]

I have a bin full of old bearing races that I have saved over the years that work perfectly for most things. Do you know anyone at an auto repair shop ? See if you can get some out of the scrap pile.

Yep

 

[Mr_B]

Yeh the bearing sleeves super useful free tooling set
have a small bread basket full under the bench by the press .

 

[Showkey]

I use the assortment of other pieces like the other posts.

Don’t often recommend HF but this set is not too bad:

https://www.harborfreight.com/front...t-21-pc-63728.html?_br_psugg_q=bearing+puller

Just would not ever pay “full price”.

 

[kythri]

I use the assortment of other pieces like the other posts.

Don’t often recommend HF but this set is not too bad:

https://www.harborfreight.com/front...t-21-pc-63728.html?_br_psugg_q=bearing+puller

Just would not ever pay “full price”.

The Astro kit linked above by signcrafter is nearly 50% cheaper than the HF clone set...

 

[milwaukeephil]

This is the exact reason I pick up cheap random sockets, they seem to work just as well as anything else I've tried.

I use sockets frequently, more as pushers than receiving cups.

The holy grail tool for me would be an adapter to fit my Snap On BJP1 that has a 1/2" ball-detent anvil on it to hold sockets!

OEM includes them in their C-frame socket set but I can't find them by themselves, much less made to fit the BJP1.

 

[Astro_Pneumatic_Tools]

The holy grail tool for me would be an adapter to fit my Snap On BJP1 that has a 1/2" ball-detent anvil on it to hold sockets!

Come to the Astro booth at SEMA

 

[milwaukeephil]

Come to the Astro booth at SEMA

I do also have the Astro press... in fact the BJP1 definitely does not have the selection of cups that the Astro set has so I usually end up with a combination of parts from both kits.

I would love to test a socket adapter!

 

[HenryAZ]

I have a bin full of old bearing races that I have saved over the years that work perfectly for most things. Do you know anyone at an auto repair shop ? See if you can get some out of the scrap pile.

I always keep the old bearing race, take it to the disk sander and sand off the outside just enough to make it a slip fit, so it will come back out easier once you've pressed in the new one.

 

[Showkey]

The Astro kit linked above by signcrafter is nearly 50% cheaper than the HF clone set...

Agree that’s why I said don’t pay full price.

 

[kelpaso1]

I always keep the old bearing race, take it to the disk sander and sand off the outside just enough to make it a slip fit, so it will come back out easier once you've pressed in the new one.

I just use a cut off tool and make a slit on one side of the race. Doing this removes the tension on the race and slips in the bore easily to be able to remove it after you pressed the new one in.

 

[milwaukeephil]

I just use a cut off tool and make a slit on one side of the race. Doing this removes the tension on the race and slips in the bore easily to be able to remove it after you pressed the new one in.

Is there a safe way to remove the outer race? Last time I tried to press one apart I ended up with an explosion of race chunks and ball bearings. Really dangerous.