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Re: Threaded rod through roller bearings

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
looks to me like you are actually planning on using ball bearings, not roller bearings?

As long as the inner races of the bearings are clamped tightly to the spacers, using the threaded rod and nuts to hold it all together, it should be ok....
Yep. I associate "ball bearings" with the balls alone and not the whole bearing, so I've always called them roller bearings. It's fixed now.
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