Karl Townsend wrote:

Main job was filing and filing to get the bearing and pulley to slide
back on easily. I had got the shaft so hot that it deformed and parts
of it hardened so the file skated on the shaft. Took careful work with
the side grinder here.


If you hardened it so that the file is skating, this may be where it breaks one of these
days. Better make sure you have stock on hand to fab a new shaft.

Wes