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Re: [Spridgets] Tapered roller bearings

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Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Tapered roller bearings
From: "Glen Byrns" <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:22:12 -0700
If you check the K&S metals rack at the local hardware or hobby shop, you'll 
usually find a small plastic pack of "shim"material".  Various thicknesses 
of brass about 4"x6".  Easy to use scissors to cut out shim washers of 
whatever thickness you want to try.

Glen

Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Tapered roller bearings


> Derf:
> Thanks.  I think if it were A-arm bushings, it would not go away when I
> tighten up the bearing.  One "castle" is really quite a lot in
> thousandths of an inch, I believe. Although I'm no machinist, so numbers
> like that don't translate very well into "feel" for me.
> The fine adjustment is done with shims but I don't know where to get
> them or where to put them.
> JohnD
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