On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:18:04 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm,
Gerald Miller quickly quoth:

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:58:15 -0500, Ignoramus26128
wrote:

Can you help me visualize what you were doing? You held the bearing by
the inner race, applied air kind of sideways, and then let go of the
bearing?


I was re posting something from several years back, but yes, that
would be how it was done. You can get them up to some impressive RPMs
that way - enough to explode the outer race I'm told.

You forgot to tell them to bend over it while they spin it, Gerry.
evil grinne

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