Folks,
Please read this carefully.
I can only make one observation, which intuition should confirm to all of you following this saga and who may be bidding for a bargain.
As has been admitted on this forum, his own forum and elsewhere; Cawley has attempted to produce his own quality bearing and platter and has failed miserably. He would no doubt have hawked my bearing (and platter) around to prospective manufacturers. Surely those people would have wanted to look inside to see what makes it work. In doing so, would they not have wanted to take my bearing apart!!!!!
I can see from the enlarged image of my bearing on Ebay that the bottom of the bearing seems to have been removed at one time.
How do I know this? Look at the gap line around the bottom of the bearing. After I seal the bottom oil cavity with three tensile bolts, I then machine the whole base to provide an aesthetic and finished surface, such that the join line does not show as it does in the image.
If the bearing has been disassembled then Cawley would not have been able to refill the bearing oil cavity with my ‘super extreme pressure oil’ because he does not have any and never requested it! What he does have; is the thinner oil, supplied by me, which is used for the top spindle lubrication.
I cannot make any comment on what condition they may be in.
Indeed Cawley is offering them for parts or not working!! The whole point of this exercise is to get at me for the simple reason, as Marco has astutely observed that, like a spoilt child, he could not get his own way.
For obvious reasons I cannot offer any guarantee or warranty as I simply do not have any information on what type of life cycle they have been subjected to if any. They may have been used in deepest Africa and totally seized with the heat!!!!! ;)
However, to demonstrate my loyalty to those who may acquire one, I will check them out and revalidate them for the small fee of $65.00 including a new supply of special synthetic oil, providing the return postage is prepaid by the buyer. (Sydney to UK $35.00)
But do not pay too much for them, as all you will be doing is dancing to Cawley’s song book, the giving to Cancer is just the cheap gimmick it is.
In a very practical sense Cawley is doing me a favour. In sales and marketing, the rate of sales tends to be proportional to the size of your customer base.
So those folks who are now buying my bearings are going to be the banner wavers of tomorrow promoting even greater sales of my upgrades and getting the best High Precision Bearing to boot!!!!
All I ask is that when you win, you sing the first verse of Waltzing Matilda with your head between your knees and facing Dartmouth :lol:
And never use them at speeds exceeding 22-1/4 rpm or in temperatures exceeding 5degC or they will totally seize up and become red hot, showering sparks and molten metal all over Grandma!!!!
