[GreenKeys] Part help

Keelan Lightfoot keelan at grenander.com
Mon Jun 11 08:51:24 EDT 2012


I've had a good experience and heard really good things about Accurate Bearing Company:

http://www.accuratebearing.com/

No minimum order, and their on-the-phone folks are extremely helpful with finding what you need. They're a favourite of a lot of antique woodworking tool rebuilders, so they're used to working with collectors!

- Keelan

On 2012-06-10, at 8:17 PM, Roy Morgan wrote:

> 
> On Jun 10, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> 
>> Suggest you just take the bad one to a bearing store and see if they
>> can't match it.  Bearings are usually standard sizes.
> 
> Indeed.  You may wind up with a bearing that's sealed with it's grease  
> inside, unlike the motor bearings that need a shot of grease every  
> once in a while.
> 
> If you have a dial caliper, or micrometer you can measure the outside  
> and inside diameters and look in bearing supplier catalogs.  Please  
> report your success, since I have one of those shift boxes in a Model  
> 28 KSR.
> 
> Note: at one time the rear wheel bearings on my old (1969) Volvo were  
> priced at $53 at the dealer and $23 at the bearing supply place.  (I'm  
> about to pull the bearing and seal out of my garden tractor rear brush  
> cutter and find a bearing supply place.)
> 
> Roy
> 
> Roy Morgan
> k1lky at earthlink.net
> K1LKY Since 1958 - Keep 'em Glowing!
> 
> 
> 
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