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Frank Lee · 04-27-2011, 08:41 AM

You went way beyond bearings.... but yeah, I figured the extra stop/starts would disappear into the "noise"... I hadn't seen it quantified before, but for the purposes of the bearing mfg R&D they are calling it 3x.

04-27-2011, 08:41 AM	#13 (permalink)
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