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Making Small Bushing Bearings
By Don Teach

Bearings are easy to make with a lathe and the proper reamers.
Turn the outside dimensions and then spot the center with spotting bit.
Drill the hole undersize and then follow with the proper size reamer.

I replace wood bearings with purpleheart wood or rosewood.  I have not
tried Delrin.  I don't know a machinist in Chicago but there has to be
dozens.

Don Teach
Shreveport, Louisiana


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