Ball bearing repair video

[Chris142]

I have become fascinated with these types of videos.

So much work to fix something that will last just a few hours at the most.

Pitted races,pitted ball bearings , welding and grinding on a precision machined surface etc.

Not Worth the time and effort.

 

[Vercingetorix]

Useful skill for after the poxy-clipse.

 

[ctechbob]

Not Worth the time and effort.

Sure it is if you:

Can't get a replacement

Can't get a replacement without selling half your village into slavery

Can't get a replacement before the end of time and your village starves

Hopefully it is a lightly loaded slow-speed application.

 

[frankbee3]

I have become fascinated with these types of videos.

So much work to fix something that will last just a few hours at the most.

Pitted races,pitted ball bearings , welding and grinding on a precision machined surface etc.

Not Worth the time and effort.

Wow, that is really interesting. I hope the repair lasts a long time.

 

[spasm3]

WOW! seeing him hand sanding inside the spinning lathe! ( 19:50:00) One wrong move and you lose your fingers!

 

[billt460]

These India / Pakistan repair videos are the latest craze. They're all over Youtube. Some of them are pretty amazing. It shows how we're both spoiled by, and a slave to the parts store.

Most of this stuff is remachined on lathes and mills that we would have sent to the scrapyard after WW II. Also, they never heard of OSHA. Most are welding, forging, machining, and grinding in open toed sandals with no safety glasses.

 

[FowVay]

I looked up the statistic and the average life expectancy for a male in Pakistan is 64 years. I love watching these videos and am in awe of the human spirit. No safety glasses or hearing protection, no steel toed shoes, and everyone is wearing loose fitting clothes while working around dangerous and antiquated machinery. Heck, I watched some men using a ragged sheet as a heat shield while pulling glowing red hot steel from a blast furnace. These guys remind me of the old coal miners in the hills of Appalachia who sold their health for a paycheck. I am glad we've learned and grown from the knowledge gained by doing.

 

[CharBaby]

WOW! seeing him hand sanding inside the spinning lathe! ( 19:50:00) One wrong move and you lose your fingers!

Or drop it on his foot/toes without wearing steel toe shoes.
I've seen videos like this before. They wear absolute no PPE.

 

[ChristianReske]

He has a perfect matching, used looking jig for opening / re-riveting the inner cage. Looks like he has done this job several times before.

 

[Dave Hess]

I looked up the statistic and the average life expectancy for a male in Pakistan is 64 years. I love watching these videos and am in awe of the human spirit. No safety glasses or hearing protection, no steel toed shoes, and everyone is wearing loose fitting clothes while working around dangerous and antiquated machinery. Heck, I watched some men using a ragged sheet as a heat shield while pulling glowing red hot steel from a blast furnace. These guys remind me of the old coal miners in the hills of Appalachia who sold their health for a paycheck. I am glad we've learned and grown from the knowledge gained by doing.

That’s how they worked 200 years ago, Im very impressed.

 

[D60]

I remember one of the 4x4 mag guys writing MANY years ago about having a rear differential failure on an MDT out in the bush. Some Third World country. Anyway he said they waited weeks for parts to arrive and set backlash using something McGuyver-esque like tree bark as a feeler gauge -- I don't remember exactly but the story has always stuck with me as an example of backwoods ingenuity. Sometimes you really do have little choice but to get creative.