[T3] Needle bearing repro.

["Martinez, Leon" <martinezl@ftscpac.navy.mil>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>Mike wrote,
Did anything ever happen with this or was this just phil's
 way of trying to get a good needle bearing;) 
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I do not know, but I did do a little research on this when
I needed mine and found that no one made them any longer.
The closest I could find had a 2mm diameter case/race too small . I think
it may be useable with a 1mm shim. Usually, a worn bearing means
worn hard chrome on the arm race surface;  the other alternative was 
to have manufactured an industrial composite bearing/thrust assembly.
I was told by the plastics engineer that these bearings would last 
longer and need no lubrication, high speeds and loads were possible 
even though I told him my requirements we slow speeds and couple of
thousand pounds, was going to be 200 dollars for 50 of these.

 Not much interest was given and I found prestine bearings
but I still have the pionts of contacts.

LEON MARTINEZ 

1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO
1967 FASTY PROJECT

SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA


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