Greetings everybody; I got the bearings for the countershaft in todays mail, and installed them, then re-assembled it like it was supposed to be, except the twin belt sheeve now has a taperlock hub it wasn't made with. Had to make a custom 4m wrench to tighten the draw bolts, but there was room to do it. Fired it up, couldn't hear it running at 100 revs, moved the belt over to the 3rd groove and ran it up a bit over 1400 revs, 3-500 more than it ever turned before. Left it there for about 15 minutes while surveying things with my IR thermometer. In 15 minutes, the only thing that went above 100F was the twin drive belts, so I believe the bearing heating is historical. Even the spindle bearing caps were still in the mid-80's F. I can live with that.
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