With my wife and the kids gone today I had all the time I needed to have a go at the roller bearing conversion I posted about yesterday. In fact I had already started on this earlier this week but as my lathe was not working properly I had to do some maintenance first. This [...]
While disassembling the two speed gear of my Scott, I noticed that the cup and cone bearing on the low gear side, on which the whole assembly runs, were shot. Most probably due to the same lack of oil I wrote about earlier… As new cups and cones are becoming hard to find nowadays I [...]
