Getting bearing off
- Thread starter copse
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Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Destroy it with hammer and chisel or slitting disc.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Smash the outer then if you can use gas axe if possible. Some time you can just slide them up the shaft and leave them there
- Location
- DD9.
Burn the balls out with the gas, remove outer race, try pullers on inner race, failing that gas it off (carefully) as well
Zebbedee
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- Location
- Scotland in the best bit
If you have gas burn out some of the balls,, lift shaft with that jack you have there and the rest of balls will fall out letting you remove housing then wash off the centre bearing casing from shaft or grind it off. If no gas available just destroy what’s left of bearing cage to move the balls for same result
Pistonbroke
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Be careful hitting a bearing with a hammer,can chip and fly anywhere. Last time I did one the chip went through two layers of clothes into my arm. Still in there
startinghandle
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If you use hammer and chisel wear goggles... I made up a pullers to do similar job ... looks like a replacement bearing has been fitted sometime also looks like a cover is fitted so hiding grease point
startinghandle
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Using gas may not be good idea as bits of chaff are visable
My dads uncle ended up with a glass eye from doing the same thing.
Pistonbroke
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It's only just off the bone so went about a couple of inches. Eye wouldn't have stood a chance even shut
Find a pair of longs bolts, grind either side of the head off to leave a T shape & that will fit between the two races. Push them through, turn 90 degrees & either use them in a puller or find a piece of steel & drill two holes so you can put it across the end of the shaft & use the bolts with nuts on as a crude bearing puller.
- Location
- North West
Before you get carried away with the gas
, put some safety glasses on then if there’s any of the bearing cage left use a punch between the balls to remove it.Then raise the shaft so all the balls can drop to the bottom. You should then be able to just flick the balls out with a screwdriver and remove the outer and housing together.
Then if you can get on the centre with a grinder cut a slot as far as possible then use a chisel to split it if you can’t get in with the grinder try pullers and some gentle heat.
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
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I would be very careful about just trying to smash it out, there was a lecturer at Evesham Tech with a plate for his front teeth, I asked him why he was wearing a plate and he said he was smashing up a bearing (on a set of discs I think) in a field, and one of the bits flew up and took out his teeth.
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I would be very careful about just trying to smash it out, there was a lecturer at Evesham Tech with a plate for his front teeth, I asked him why he was wearing a plate and he said he was smashing up a bearing (on a set of discs I think) in a field, and one of the bits flew up and took out his teeth.
kevindb880
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- Location
- Herts
Had to have my chin glued after I hit a bearing and bits flew!
Pistonbroke
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Do you tell people it was from an undercover SAS mission you were on?
Never thought of that ,
