Howdy all of you wise & frugal master scroungers & fabricator types. I'd like to gob together 4 _cheap_ 4" x 12" x 3/8" low-profile skates for occasional use around the garage-just heavy enough for my sb13; does anyone have a good _cheap-as-possible_ source for (maybe 16 to 32 $depending) roughly 2+" od, ½ to ¾ ID bearings? (not too fussy on exact size long as pairs match) I'm in long beach, ca. any fairly local surplus places? also, what's the cheapest I could expect to find em? Seems to me anyodd gyppo chiwaneez type should be fine unless sealed are close in price. Thanks a . . well, about a ton . . groan Best John

why not free then - just go to any real mechanic and ask for old rear wheel bearings -- ones that are not suitable any more for a car will usually be fine for your application - otherwise, buy new wheel bearings - try 65 chevy truck rear if you need somewhere to start Howdy all of you wise & frugal master scroungers & fabricator types. I'd like to gob together 4 _cheap_ 4" x 12" x 3/8" low-profile skates for occasional use around the garage-just heavy enough for my sb13; does anyone have a good _cheap-as-possible_ source for (maybe 16 to 32 $depending) roughly 2+" od, ½ to ¾ ID bearings? (not too fussy on exact size long as pairs match) I'm in long beach, ca. any fairly local surplus places? also, what's the cheapest I could expect to find em? Seems to me anyodd gyppo chiwaneez type should be fine unless sealed are close in price. Thanks a . . well, about a ton . . groan Best John

LeighI appreciate your skate but when you have 2 or 3 of them under a heavymachine, how do you line them up so the machine goes in a straightline ?And, when you want to turn the machine to jockey it into position,isn't that a trick ?John

Advice please: cheapo source for light machine skate bearings?

Jan 03, 2007 22 Replies

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Bob Engelhardt 19 years ago

If I were looking, I wouldn't bother. What are the chances of finding

16 (or 32) of the same bearings? So they're common - that doesn't mean that a mechanic will have a pile of them. Why would he keep them? Pull 'em off and throw them in the trash. I suppose that you might find a mechanic who wouldn't mind your going through his trash. And you might find a couple. Do that 8 -16 times and you'd have them. Not me.

Maybe if you tried you would find what you seek,

Have *you* ever gone to a mechanic looking for something like this? I have - it only took a few tries to get the message that they don't keep old parts and/or don't want to be bothered.

YMMV, Bob

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grifftek 19 years ago

Hi John

I need to move my cncn mill across my shop and have started looking for some skates. I have a few pictures of some friends skates and I also have a solid works model of an idea I had to machien some from aluminum stock 4" x 6" that would hold 10 R10ZZ double shielded ball bearings 5/8 id x 1 3/8 od and .344 wide. These bearings are available on ebay for $0.66 each in 100 pc qty. Load capacity static axial =3D728 lbs Dynamic axial=3D1340 lbs

eBay item number is 7623141246

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I will probably just use a piece of u channel like in the pictures

You can see the images at

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Regards

bill griffin bill @ grifftek dot com

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John Waverly 19 years ago

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