Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Live Center Bearings

This was written a while back but never published.


Found a video on YouTube regarding fixing a similar live center.

Amazing "Wet Paper Towel" Method of bearing removal on skully jones live center


Worked as advertised.  Used a cut off socket extension to drive the towels in.  It takes a surprising amount of stuffing.


Not fun picking the paper shreds out of the bearings.  Not sure if both bearings are good.   The bearing number is Timken Part Number A4059.  It looks like a uxcell 30202 will fit even but its a mm wider. ebay has 3 for $10.https://www.ebay.com/itm/30202-Single-Deep-Groove-Ball-Bearings-Silver-Tone-35mmx15mmx12mm-3pcs/351957893328?epid=2136364554&hash=item51f25340d0:g:sxcAAOSwUwFaS5RO

I am going to clean them the best I can and see if they work.

And they did.  Have them a little too tight but it runs cool so I am going to live with it.


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