Hi Guy's,
Thanks for all the support in that retched medium.
Now back on topic,
I had a look out in the "Boneyard" in the 41 degree heat today (Beautiful Adelaide ??) and found a Rover Red rear roller that I've previously removed from a cancer riddled chassis that was cut up for scrap and thus I removed the original shaft mounted bearing and carrier.
Well the information is not good as they had no bearing numbers on the outer race and I have since found out that they are a peculiar bearing with an oddball size outer race, just a millimetre smaller OD than an RLS5 which is what is used the cutter bearing.
I really can't see why they had to use such an oddball size bearing when they could've stayed with the same size as the reel bearing thus doubled their sales in the same size bearings and reduced their overall buying price.
If you check the prices on eBay for the roller bearings you will see that they are through the roof in price point and nearly $45 ~ $50 per bearing and that's absurd.
UPDATE !!!!
Well I've just been speaking to my contact in that industry before I posted the initial post and I've found out that these bearings are made to order as there is no generic equivalent nor a replacement. These bearings are made in batches of about 20 at a time and thus this makes them expensive to manufacture and that cost is passed on to the end consumer.
Now my question is, why did Scott Bonnar have such an oddball bearing made for them as believe me the originals are no precision High Speed bearing and neither are the new ones that are now sold on eBay. Maybe they were made on a tight budget as they are made of substandard materials that's for sure and thus it was cheaper than a high speed RLS5. We'll never know, but honestly I feel it would be cheaper for some one to tool up and press out the sheetmetal bearing carriers to suit the far more common RLS5 bearing that you can buy for around $5.00 per unit.
Thoughts ??
Cheers,
BB.
