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Re: Lubricating axels, etc.
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:16:00 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> 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.
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> The 9V wheel blocks are using "tip bearings" (sorry I have not found the
> translation for "Spitzenlager" in
> any dictionary). I mean a bearing as used for e.g. in good mechanical clocks.
> These bearings are not made for higher loads, but their main advantage is
> their very low friction.
"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 think.
A "spit" in english, one meaning of it anyway, is a long thin bit of land
often coming to a point that sticks out into a lake or ocean...
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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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| | Re: Lubricating axels, etc.
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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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