"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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Been having trouble with the roller guides on my band saw from the git go.
First time I ran it one of the shields popped off. Put it back on and it
was OK for a while, then another popped off. Put it back and it was OK
for a while. This went on for several years. Yesterday one of the
shields popped off and the cage came out. Time for a new guide. Pulled
the bearing off and looked at it and it was marked "608ZZ". Figured I'd
have to call around to the bearing places today, but just for hohos I
googled the thing and found a remarkable lot of hits on skateboard sites.
So I went down to the local skateboard shop (Skate Lair in Enfield,
CT--doesn't look like much but they're well stocked) and showed the guy
the bearing. He reached into his junk pile, found one that spun and was
going to _give_ it to me until he found out that I needed more than one.
I ended up getting a set of 8 sealed ABEC-5s for 25 bucks which let me
replace the whole lot with a couple of spares.

Turned out that a couple of the bearings on the lower guide weren't
turning at all, and at least one more had something wrong with
it--periodically when one or the other was contacted I'd hear a whining
noise--that's gone.

Thought I'd post this just in case it might be useful to somebody.

Is this a veiled desire to take up skateboarding?

A midlife criss perhaps? G