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There is some food for thought! I just found some small oil impregnated
bronze sleeve bearings which cost only 34 cents and could hold up to 250
lbs. This would allow me to stick with a 1/4" brass shaft, so I think I'll
go with that.
Thanks everyone!


A bronze bushing on brass shaft is somehting that I have never seen and it
is certainly not how the bronze bushing was meant to be used. It is quite
possible there would be too much chemical affinity and they would start to
stick and gall.