Hi Folks,
Please Note the following:

Maybe I should have highlighted this situation earlier when it was first brought to my attention by a user (Mike) who bought what he says was the last Bearing from Dave B.
When he got his Bearing it was accompanied by a copy of my Instructions and stapled to the back of these was another sheet of advice.
This advised the owner as follows; and I have copied the words from the email sent to me by Mike the user as follows:-----

“They had the article from hifi pig stapled to the back of your instructions. I read through the lot. The hifi pig article makes crystal clear the need for filing back the solder wires to "barely nothing", he says you can't get them short enough with a nail clipper and he shorted out his on first go. So I guess I went overboard and didn't realise the damage I did until it was too late. Just blitzed it and was careless.” (sic)


I have no idea who Hifi pig is, all I can say is that the advice given by this fool is absolutely and totally uninformed and so stupid as to be mind boggling from my point of view.

Firstly, using a file, which by the very nature of the operation has to be almost parallel to the PCB copper tracks, is guaranteed to cut through other parts of the PCB.

Secondly, filing down the solder blobs to "barely nothing" will very likely result in broken connections with the coil wires Does he not realize that I took all of this into account when I set the dimensions!!!

Unfortunately Dave would not have known any better not being a very practical guy.

When I designed the Bearing housing some 5 years ago now I did have to adjust the clearance height of the Bearing flange to ensure clearance for the worst-case solder blobs.
I can only assume that this hifi pig fellow did not follow my detailed instructions in the first place or didn’t bother to read the Instructions.

In fact on re-reading the email indicates that hifi pig may be some sort of
magazine, does anyone know??

If these spurious instructions come to the notice of other Bearing users who may think that they should modify the installation of their Bearing. Please do not!!