On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:07:34 -0500, Jon Elson
wrote:

Gunner Asch wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:36:50 -0500, Jon Elson
wrote:


The bearings need to be filled with a
known quantity of lube to avoid overfilling.


1/3rd fill.

Fill them completely..and they will run very warm/hot

Right, but how the HECK do you determine how much is 1/3rd?
I guess the bearing manufacturer can calculate the exact volume of the
bearing that isn't filled with steel, but I think this could be hard to
do correctly in the field. Hmm, I suppose you could weight the bearing
and then calculate the volume of the OD - ID and that would get you
pretty close.

Jon


Nah..fill em full with a bearing grease press, then soak em in solvent,
collect the grease, burn out the solvent with heat, and measure the
grease volume. Then divide by 3 and voila!

G

Or make an educated guess like I do when packing bearings on machine
tools.

Say!..you could use a grease gun and a needle and fill in between every
third ball! That would do it!

VBG

Gunner


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