[Shop-talk] Roller bearing race modification

Randall tr3driver at ca.rr.com
Fri Jul 11 21:10:31 MDT 2008


> As 
> long as I keep it cool and can get it clean again, is there 
> any reason not to grind the inside radius larger on the ID of 
> the inner bearing ?

Sounds reasonable to me.  But maybe it would be worth contacting Timken, to
see if they would replace the bearing with the proper radiused version?
They usually (tho not always) come in at least two different radiuses, seems
like you just need the large radius version.

Randall


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