Hey Harold!
You sound like me...........8 years ago...........Hey, Man!.......I just
KNOW I I can find that bearing someplace!.........or as my genius machinist
friend said ........Hey!...I know a place in CA that has every bearing ever
made..........We are all, I fear, Don Quixote's after the windmills.......
But (sincerely) I hope you can find a source for us .........I, myself, will
be glad to by 10 new ones at $50 each.!!!
Here are the #'s on the bearing..............Outer Rim: HOFFMANN 117 FS
V2 ENGLAND RQPO (A DELTA SIGN)N Inner Rim: QPO
N3179 V2
It is my understanding that these were made only by Hoffmann (they have
evidently been out of business for years) .........they have a seal on one
side (retaining ring, flat thin metal washer ring , fiber filler ring) and
nothing on the other.side...............any thing less than this, the grease
pressure will blow out the seals!!!
Hey!!!.......great Luck!!!.....I hope you find a source........let me know!
As Red Green says, "Remember.............I'm rootin for ya.........we're all
in this together!!!"
(FYI........if you find an old one.........clean it up.......they were
probably a bit loose when new........My Guru said, "That's a bad bearing, try
to replace it!"........I broke it up, took it back to him.........and he
said, "Hmmmmmm.......I can't see anything wrong with it!.......it's an older
bearing........maybe it started loose!") When a good one is clean.......it
rattles a bit when you spin it......but really doesn't have any appreciable
movement vertically or horizontally.
Clark
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