what kind of bearings? - ball bearings are like tubes - thay have
numbers and substitutes. Bronze bearings are routinely made by
machinists. Babbit is hardest as it is poured in place but you might
be better off replacing them with something else like bronze. Bearing
technology is not all that complicated if you poke into the right
group of folks.


More like bronze bearings. But it ain't that easy. When you take it
apart you end up with hundreds of pieces. It is the most complicated
concoction of moving mechanical parts I ever encountered. The photo at
near bottom show just a small part of it:
http://www.myplanet.net/x77dude/photos.html

Regards, Joerg

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