Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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Dodgeavion wrote:
Here: http://www.rbcbearings.com/ballbearings/index.htm
Thanks for the suggestion-- I was not aware they were still doing business as my search for NICE bearings hadn't revealed the RBC website. Actually that is all the good news-- the bad news is that they confirmed that the 7299 bearing was a special application that is no longer available and could only suggest one of their "600 series". The closest one in that series uses a 1/4" balls (while it appears the 7299 bearing used an 1/8" (or maybe a 1/16") ball set). Thus the closest one (# 610 1/4 V) has a slightly larger OD (1-3/4" vs 1-9/16") and a larger thickness (5/8" vs 5/16"). Both of these would cause problems with the miter gears meshing and doesn't appear to be a good way to modify the original gears to make these available thrust bearings work :(. So for now the only option is to continue with the greased bearing washers and re-grease frequently. I have pondered replacing the miter gears with slightly larger ones to accommodate the larger bearing size but appears not to be an easy fix. Any one with more "miter gear knowledge" out there with suggestions??
