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Beginners guide to Bearings - 14:06 23 Jan 09
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Hi All,
Maybe this will come in useful for someone sometime. I recently discovered that when cleaning bearings (Bones Redz in this case) you can get the situation where some (or all) of the ball bearings fall out of the middle race track onto the floor or somewhere equally inconvenient.
Once you collect them all together again you can actually get them back into the race track as follows:
1) Get a folded towel and place it on your work surface
2) Arrange your (7) ball bearings in a cresent moon shape inside the outer bearing casing (ie all the ball bearings are arranged on one side of the casing).
3) Gently push down on the outer bearing casing (aproximately in the middle of the cresent moon of ball bearings). This should more or less allow the ball bearings to get into position in the outer race track.
4) Gently push in the inner bearing casing, starting on the opposite side of the cresent moon of ball bearings. The idea is to glide the inner casing into the central position.
5) If you succeed with this you now have the ball bearings in the correct place aligned on one side of the race track. You can now reassemble the rest of the bearing and lubricate with your preferred oil / grease.
The key here is that the soft towel can hold the bearings in place while you reassemble the bearing properly.
So - get to it....you can now restore any "broken" bearings you have 
Rog
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