On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:46:54 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:48:10 GMT, Ignoramus6689
wrote:

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:41:20 GMT, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:

"Ignoramus6689" wrote in message
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Thank you. What is NGK?

A brand of bearing. Japanese origin; good quality.
Thank you. So, your vote is to just replace the bearings, not to try
to just re-grease them?

If they grumble, they're shot. Replace them.

Got it. Thank you Lloyd. Yes, they do grumble, like they have sand in them.

i
a heads up..DONT buy India made bearings. Only US, Japanese, European,
and marginally..Chinese bearings.

Forget the Chinese bearings.

A good while back we rebuilt the spare spindle for a IR T-25 air
compressor (being used as a natural gas compressor by the local gas
company). He keeps a spare because of all the problems that compressor
gives him. Anyway it was put in service about 2 years ago with the
bearings that he had gotten from the local NAPA. Well less than a year
later we had to take the compressor back apart because it was making
noise. Inspection found the balls in the bearings looking kind of like
a baseball with half of them being shiny and the other half being
pitted. Lousy steel in those balls. They where replaced with some good
USA bearings which will hopefully hold up much longer.


Wayne Cook
Shamrock, TX
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/waynecook/index.htm