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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
I could likely find a piece of PVC or poly pipe the right diameter
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Could work but you need a big enough surface to hammer on with a rubber mallet and something that's not going to flare in the shaft and transfer the shock to the bearing exposed surface. Tube wall might be too thin.
We had some
soft plastic bits. They're between plastic and rubber kind of material. Polypipe might be a bit too hard and brittle.
Anyway whichever way you're going to do this take your time, keep everything inline and it'll come out nicely once it starts moving. Bearings are not rocket science. The only time they'll jam is if you kink them off axis and they bite in. Then you're gone. So litlle taps, bits by bits. You'll feel it when you do it.
Another thing that might help is a bit of acetone in a syringe and wet the line between the bearing and the bronze, let it soak. That should help loosen up any stiction to start with. Acetone gets into
anything by capillarity.