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Old 06-16-2011, 09:17 PM
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Ah yes, scraping bearings - two stories.
First was a bearing (16+ inch shaft) that I dispositioned to be scraped. Someone misread my disposition and the bearing was scrapped. Took us a while to track down the 'scrap' and have it 'scraped'.
Second was a giant lathe that had been refurbished with new poured babbit bearings. The guy doing the scraping of the headstock bearings used the actual headstock rather than an oversize mandrel to do the scraping. Lathe ran about 20 minutes before seizing up tight.
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