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Old 07-25-2024, 09:59 AM   #47 (permalink)
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As long as you can maintain an oil film in the bearing you don't have issues. In the past that maintenance was an issue where the bearing gaps were a couple thousanths.

Worse yet those gaps would grow and shrink during operation. Modern engineering and metallurgical advances changed that
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