layshaft bearings

["Anthony Rhodes" <spamiam@comcast.net>]

I did a little research on the layshaft and its failures.  I thought about
replacing bearings with bushings, but I found that the load is too great for
any bushings I could find.  The layshaft fails when the hardened surface
delaminates from the softer metal underneath.  I would want to get a better
layshaft.  Thicker hardened surface would be the ticket, I think.

That layshaft area around the first gear takes some mighty loads!

-Tony