Re: Bainbridge blade guides
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Bill, I appreciate your positive outlook. :) It's been an education thus far. I.e. concentric vs eccentric. ;). I continue to learn from y'all and appreciate every bit of it! For my own knowledge, and anyone else who might look for this in the future, I'll post up what I find. Thanks again! Darren
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Happy Thanksgiving Darren, and all!
I¡¯d bet they are standard flavor, that you can find easily at a bearing house, or online. ?
Good news is, they are a far better bearing than a ball or deep groove ball, and will last a lot longer.
Smaller ones are needle, larger generally a double row needle, and will handle a lot more load than ball bearings.
They cost more, initially, but overall, the cost will be less due to the long life they have.
I¡¯m thinking you will have a really good saw when you get it all plus¡¯d back up!
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Bill
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Dang, I was REALLY hoping that wasn't the case. Wanna bet these are funky dimensions? Time to get out the calipers.
Happy Thanksgiving to all that celebrate it tomorrow! :)
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Those appear to be eccentric cam followers.
You don¡¯t replace just the bearing, you replace the bearing, stud & all.
Bill
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[Attachment(s) from Darren McCarley included below]
The resurrection of the Bainbridge bandsaw continues.. I've refinished the stand and base. Moving on to replacing all the bearings I find myself a bit bewildered. Attached you'll find images of the guide bearings. I believe the bearings are captured by the
concentrics. However, one bearing shows signs of a previous owner trying to press the bearings out, and failed. So, I don't think I'll be attempting that route. I doubt the images show it, but I believe I see threads under the concentrics. However, the bolt
is pretty soft and I don't want to screw up the flat head.?
So, my query to this group, how the heck do I go about getting these trashed bearings off????
I've considered they may be reverse threaded. However, I come to the same conclusion, regardless of the direction, I don't want to scar the concentrics. They are about as thick as a Sharpie pen and rather thin walled.?
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