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| (...) [snip] (...) One last hint: if the wheels sets are quite old and have been used for most of the time under heavy duty, then they might have evidently wear in their bearings. The 9V wheel blocks are using "tip bearings" (sorry I have not found (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) "needle" bearings. That is, they are just a hard metal point in a soft metal (or in this case, hard plastic) cup. Very common in regular MR as well where the metal is often Stainless Steel and the plastic is Delrin, a hard kind of nylon I (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) under (...) Thanks Larry, the direct back-translation of needle bearing would be "Nadellager" in German, but Nadellager has a completely different meaning here. That is a roller bearing with very fine (long and thin like needles) cylinders (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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