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Are you able to find new bearings in the USA?
What a great thread Lovely bike Dusty
Thank you Dusty. It's a fun project but I'm too impatient and too cheap! Recently been shoring up the Italian economy with greenbacks. Probably should have originally posted in projects, but I was hoping to reach as many bacon slicer owners as possible 'cause I know so little about them.
We can move it later , but right now I agree with your idea . Dusty
but I'd have to find the right steel and have it hardened -
Do you have an ox/acetylene torch?
I don't, but I have friends! :)Heard stories of case hardening by getting the piece red hot and dropping it in a can of carbon powder or something. s'pose I could google this. A local machine shop has an oven for hardening too.
If you have friends with an oven, that will of course be best. If you absolutely have to, you can get some water hardening drill rod, machine it, heat it to carrot color and drop it (vertically) in a bucket of water. It will now be too hard to use, so polish the scale off, and *very carefully* heat with the torch until it is the color of straw. At this point drop it in the water again. It will go from straw to blue very rapidly.. don't let that happen, or it will be too soft.That is quick and dirty heat treat 101.
Thanks again. Most people don't have a clue about the work involved when they look at an old machine peacefully putting along.
Not really. Airplanes by design are simple machines.