Ok here is the latest on bearings for these older lathes. Temkin is out of stock on the industrial precision bearings that would be the class 3, 0 the 00, 000 were never made in these sizes. Temkim has no plans to make a production run on these bearing again they are retired. The class 3s have if you can find NOS bearings some where, have +.0003 -0000 TIR the standard bearings in this size have .0015 TIR. I begged the regional sale manager to request a production run and no joy. Besides it will be at least a year from when they descide if ever to do an other production run. Before we will see them.
So people take damn good care of your clausing 100 spindel bearing there is no more. This the word from Temkin. I got 2 large company's looking for NOS 3’s or by gods grace 0. For my lathe right now. Mean while I guess something used or crap china made lathe. I’ll be making a decision on wheather to part the old girl or not. I’v got lots neat stuff for it like near metric change gears, steady rest, bull gear assbys, chucks, lots of taped drills, 2mt, 3mt and larger. Collet chuck. Ect.
Tell me what you think.
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