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Old 18-08-2021, 03:18 PM
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I dressed the secondary DEC-washer with the sanding-drum, but, initially, it would not drop down into the DEC housing. It was a bit befuddling, "What happened???" But, here it is, completed...

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The inner diameter was correct, but I had to reduce the outer diameter, considerably. I had described the outer circle accurately, yes. That was the primary instance where I had to lightly apply the sanding-drum, to "sculpt", round and round the outer diameter, several revolutions -- that French, then that Russian -- until, at last, it dropped into the abyss.

This is an example of where I use shears to dress the outside diameters, in this instance of the washers for the needle-thrust bearing...

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...and roughly shaped. There, the inner diameters had already been completed.

Then, the outer diameters here, after the sanding-drum, paper-sanding and polishing...

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Incidentally, this is what I'm replacing with those, and ill-fitting...

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Yea, just enough to get by, just enough to get it out the door and onto the seaborne container.

The total thickness of the needle-thrust bearing and its two bronze washers is 0.122", almost twice that of the plastic washer being replaced, and negligible in the end.

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