[ARC5] A really WEIRD question...

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 30 May 2013 at 15:46, J. Forster wrote:

> I don't know specifically, but if there was no ball separator to space
> out the balls, I'd pretty much put in as many as will fit, then remove
> one, and rotate the shaft end to end to spread out the remaining ones.

Well, that is kinda what I ended up doing.

It turns out that not only did he lose all the balls at the tensioner end, but he 
lost all of the balls around the driven end also.

There were at least 24 balls in that end, and I got 10 in the other end.

I took a totally ruined capacitor apart, then spent the better part of two hours 
putting as many of those balls back in the main races as I could keep from 
losing on the floor.

Those things are about 1/2 the size of a pin-head, by the way.

I managed to get something like 18 balls in the big end, and once I put 
everything back together, it works very smoothly now.

However, it is a giganitc PITA putting those things back in. I sure hope I 
never have to do it again.

Thanks,

Ken W7EKB