RE: [CR]Re: Loose Balls

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot)

From: "Scott L. Minneman" <minneman@onomy.com>
To: "'Thomas Dusky'" <tdusky@comcast.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: RE: [CR]Re: Loose Balls
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:26:36 -0800
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....and available from McMaster-Carr (same grade, all sizes) for a small fraction of that price.

http://www.mcmaster.com - search on (duh) ball bearings

I think the point of the original posting was simply that it wasn't as easy to just pop over to a local industrial outlet or "bearing shop" (before my time, that last one) and pick up a supply of these puppies in exchange for a handful of dirt. At these low prices, keeping a hundred or two around in the common sizes used on bikes doesn't seem burdensome.

Campy grease, though....that's another story, price-wise.

Speaking of grease, did I gather that somebody on the list had actually packed the barrels of their Campy hubs so full of grease that they could use the oil port to force contaminated grease out the side seals? There's no way they should be packed like that, right? The drag of spinning a hub body around that blob of stationary grease and fixed spindle (yes, I know enough about fluid dynamics to realize it'd be more complex than that, but would still have massive drag) would be really nasty.

I hope, at least, that whomever even considers that style of lubrication is using *really* light consistency grease (NLGI 0). If not, unpack those hubs and your pedaling will get a lot easier.

Cheers,

Scott Minneman San Francisco, CA, USA

-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dusky Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 8:56 AM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]Re: Loose Balls

All sizes of grade 25 ball bearings available from Bicycle classics. Bottom Bracket; http://00eda5d.netsolhost.com/bottom.html Headsets: http://00eda5d.netsolhost.com/headsets.html Hubs: http://00eda5d.netsolhost.com/hubs.html

Tom Dusky
Huntington Woods, MI