Bearing burning up

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

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Carbide Compact Spindle Support/Repair/Makita similarity

Hi guys, this one isn’t so much a question as some learnings I wanted to share so the next poor guy googling around looking to repair his C3D spindle has an answer. So the carbide compact spindle/router that came with my Shapeoko 4 was perhaps never as tight at the nose as one would have hoped, and it was like this from new. I always assumed it was a less-than-wonderful bearing, but having owned a handful of cheap routers with a similar problem over the years I figured it’d be fine for a while …