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</span></font><tt><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>I'm not su=
re
that I blame them either. Bells on well engineered, </span></font></tt><fon=
t
color=3Dblack><span style=3D'mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";color:bl=
ack'><br>
</span></font><tt><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> well
maintained plain bearings go superbly well and, often, are not </span></fon=
t></tt><font
color=3Dblack><span style=3D'mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";color:bl=
ack'><br>
</span></font><tt><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> subje=
ct to
the 'suck and blow' that you sometimes get with ball </span></font></tt><fo=
nt
color=3Dblack><span style=3D'mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";color:bl=
ack'><br>
</span></font><tt><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> beari=
ngs. </span></font></tt><font
color=3Dblack><span style=3D'mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";color:bl=
ack'><br>
<br>
</span></font><tt><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Yes, they'=
re
fine where they are a) in good condition and b) regularly oiled. However, t=
he
majority of plain bearings left now are getting pretty knackered and given =
that
a large proportion of ringers don't know what's above the ceiling boss then
ball bearings, which don't require regular oiling, are perhaps a better opt=
ion.</span></font></tt><font
color=3Dblack><span style=3D'mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";color:bl=
ack'><br>
<br>
</span></font><tt><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>I understa=
nd
that plain bearings are useful where there is a lot of tower movement, as t=
he
intertia of ball bearings can make the tower movement affect the bells more
than if the bells were on plain bearings. I noticed a few years ago that th=
e
front three at St Mary's, Warwick, as still on plain bearings. Given that t=
his
is a tower which moves a lot, I wonder whether this is the reason?</span></=
font></tt><font
color=3Dblack><span style=3D'mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";color:bl=
ack'><br>
<br>
</span></font><tt><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>David</spa=
n></font></tt><font
color=3Dblack><span style=3D'mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";color:bl=
ack'><br>
<br>
</span></font><font color=3Dnavy><span style=3D'mso-fareast-font-family:"Co=
urier New";
color:navy'>I second what Richard said - Taylor plain bearings work extreme=
ly
well when properly maintained. The problem is that a lot of people don't se=
em
to know how to maintain them, and put grease in them. I used to look after =
the
bells at Llangybi, Mon, a Taylor installation of 1902/7. The glorious 1907 =
12
cwt Taylor tenor used to go well even with just grease and pigeon muck as
lubricant, and went like a dream once we had cleaned out the bearings, and
re-instated the wick feeds with the correct type of oil. The fifth - on 190=
7
Taylor plain bearings - goes so well that it will actually bounce off the s=
tay
at handstroke if set at backstroke and then tipped over the balance and all=
owed
to fall. I found that the bearings only needed topping up with oil every co=
uple
of months or so - just a little squirt through the hole in the bearing cove=
r.</span></font><font
color=3Dnavy><span style=3D'mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";color:nav=
y;
mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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ize=3D3
color=3Dnavy face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;mso-f=
areast-font-family:
"Courier New";color:navy'>Regrettably the we found that the gudgeons and
bearings on the sixth and seventh were rather worn, and we took the headsto=
cks
to Taylors to have them fitted with new gudgeons and modern ball-bearings. =
We
also had all the pulley boxes fitted with new pulleys running on ball-beari=
ngs,
with the result and the go and handling of the whole ring left nothing to b=
e
desired.</span></font><font color=3Dnavy><span style=3D'color:navy;mso-colo=
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