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Originally Posted by Dick Linn
Our wheel bearings have an inside diameter of around 0.499" and our axle material is 0.500", so it's time for the old emery paper.
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wow....I'm glad we have a lathe in the fab shop, and a backup lathe in my garage....I did a little experimental turning on some 3/8" id x 1/2" od steel tube I had and discovered you need to reduce the diameter by about .0015" to get the KOP bearings to slide onto the tube.