Quote Originally Posted by Bill Blasic View Post
I have a Oneway, 2 Powermatic, 2 Nova and a Robust. With prolonged use the Oneway and Powermatic live centers get hot, the Robust and Novas do not. The cone for the Robust is a very hardy size, have it but have not used it.
Better quality close tolerance bearings will get warm, that is no problem, too much pressure put on the bearings can get them to run hot, ease off the pressure or you could burn out the bearings.

I have my Oneway live center for better than 20 years, and it still runs like new, yes get warm when spinning it a high RPMs for longer periods, that’s no problem.

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