I should have added a note about the ball not being visible in the
drawing. You're right - I could have deleted the inner sleeve but I
wanted a check against overtorquing the nut and damaging the bearings.
The better way to go is to use the Belleville washer as you and Ben
suggested and then the inner sleeve isn't needed. And then a nut clip
or lockwire could be used to keep the nut in place.
The next thing I need to consider is the forces on the bearings. The
bearings are rated to 90 lb of axial force but I'm sure I can go higher
than that for a static, low-life application like this. The 500 psi
pressure load will push the 3/8 bottom portion of the stem up about 55
lb while the seal will push against the washer and outer race with about
43 lb. The outer sleeve will keep both outer races in place. It seems
I can (and should) put up to 45 lb of preload using the nut and a spring
washer. I'll have to think about that a bit more though.
-Bob
On 05/23/2016 01:25 AM, Norman Yarvin wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 10:12:16PM -0500, Robert Watzlavick wrote:
I'm not sure I understand your last paragraph.It was premised on the idea that the ball was rigidly attached to the
stem, so doesn't apply.
Anyway, okay, the idea here is to preload the one bearing against the
other, not any of the other possibilities I was contemplating. For
that you could leave out the inner sleeve; it's resisting that preload
rather than contributing to it. (Though it does make it so that you
tighten the preload nut harder, which lessens the chance of it getting
loose.)