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> From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: RE: DML: Working on tb now - tips - maybe!?
> Date: Saturday, July 11, 1998 2:47 PM
>
> At 03:55 AM 7/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >Thanks, Eric. Do you know if those shaft bearings need to be pulled (if
they even come out)? The shaft isn't gorgeous after you grind the bolt
holes to get the shaft out, but it's not an abomination either (at least
not to me). Are we going with mother's on the protective coating? Wonder
how durable/heat resistant it is? One more question (for now ; ) ) - what
do the bearings, shaft get lubed with? Anything?
> >
> >Thanks ahead of time.
> >
>
>
> I didn't grind the bolt/screw holes at all to remove the shaft; it
> pulled out without a lot of hassle. (One thing that helped was to
> take a pair of long nosed pliers and squeeze the shaft together; slips
> through really easy then.) As far as the looks go, I sanded the paint
> off the shaft, and polished it up too.
check it in 2 weeks and tell us how much rust has accumulated... we use
special coatings...
j/mpi
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