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Re: spridget hubs and bearings

To: cak@parc.xerox.com (Chris Kent Kantarjiev)
Subject: Re: spridget hubs and bearings
From: phile@stpaul.gov (Philip J Ethier)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 16:39:48 -0600 (CST)
Chris Kent Kantarjiev writes>
 
> I followed a couple of leads and got my bearings 

Glad to see you are no longer lost!

> as Phil (and others, in private
> mail) pointed out, they are just the later tapered roller bearings.

You mean to say that later Midgets had roller bearings from the factory?
I did not know that.
> 
> Interestingly, the guy at WC said that some racers put the distance
> piece back in with a couple of shims and torque in a bunch of bearing
> preload to help keep the stub axles from breaking...
> 
This is something I am not sorry not to have done.  


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