In article 280920120948179934%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone. ca,
says...

In article m, Lew
Hodgett wrote:

wrote:


Man, it's obvious you have not dome many repairs! You knock ball
bearings in by driving them on the OUTER race. Usually using a
suitably sized socket and a medium hammer. Care is required, of
coarse
- but the chance of contributing to brunelling of the bearing are
excedingly remote. Bearing drivers are made and available at a
reasonable price for purists and tool junkies - and are the standard
recommended method of "driving" most automotive ball and roller
bearings, from alternators to transmissions.
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Try running that past a bearing manufacturing application engineer
and see if you can get one to salute it.

Guarantee it will never happen.

The above is total bull ****.

There was a time in my life that one of my major tasks was to oversee
the design and installation of all ball bearings for an electrical
rotating
equipment manufacturer.

We shipped thousands units equipped with ball bearings every month.

Trust me, none of my bearing suppliers would have put holy water on
what you are suggesting.

Yeah, and Adobe says never to open a document across a network with its
software.

Doesn't mean it can't be done quite successfully.

Application engineer != Real world use

The real issue isn't that you won't get away with it. Most of the time
you will, and you'll tell yourself that you'll remember that if it's
something mission critical that lives or very expensive property depend
on you'll remember to do it the right way. The trouble is that you'll
have the bad habit by that time and won't remember.