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My place of work recently replaced all of the bearing on a piece of machinery. The nature of this machine dictates that there is quite a few bearings involved.
Being the cheap, scrounge hound that I seem to be, I procured the small roller bearings in each of the shaft bearings.
All of these little roller bearings (Ø.197 x .237" long) were covered in bearing grease and were honestly a bit of a bugger to clean up. Of course my little scale did not have the ability to weigh them all at once, so I had to tare out a plastic cup, and use it a few times to get all of them weighed.
Total weight is 289.20 ounces (18.075 pounds). That ought to be enough for a couple of knives anyway.
For those of you that watch Forged In Fire, you will probably know that Jay Nielson really likes his canister damascus. I figured these would be great in creating a nice billet, so I went and got some 1095 powder, so I will have the materials when I feel I am ready to try my hand at making a canister damascus billet.
Just wanted to share what I thought was a pretty nice score. :)
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