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JPG, Thanks for reply.The inner race of the original bearing is still attached to the follower, but the rest of the race is just "gone". The outer race and balls are probably laying in the bottom of the headstock somewhere, but it's not still in the shaft coming out of the sheave. There is...

Hi all, I have an old Mark VII and the cam follower bearing disintegrated today. It is just gone and the cam follower was sitting in the end of the shaft the moveable sheave rotates and slides on to change speeds. Making a bit of a racket when it went, too. It didn't melt my plastic cam because I re...