[GreenKeys] NOS bearings

[Nick England]

I confess to squirting things like this with some WD-40 to loosen up the
old gunk and getting the bearing to turn freely by hand. Then stuffing some
Red-N-Tacky grease into it and declaring victory.
I dunno - Not like I am running anything 24/7.

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 2:47 PM John, W9DDD <w9ddd at tapr.org> wrote:

> I have this NOS intermediate assembly that likely has been in storage
> since before 1980.
>
> I can see grease in the bearings, and it doesn't look hard or old.  But
> I don't want to start running it hard and then have a problem.  (hard
> being a few hours a day?)
>
> Bank in the last century the motor bench guy used to flush the bearings
> with a solvent (kerosene?) and then repack them with fresh grease.  But
> this would have been after many hours of use or maybe even years for
> 25-250 HP motors.
>
> Should i go to that extreme?  Or maybe a drop or two of oil to loosen
> things up?
>
>
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