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Originally Posted by Mike Kelly
Years ago i used to buy the bushes from Jacobs spring works in Oakleigh but they are probably long gone .
It's often the case that the spring eye is not a perfectly circular shape , the eye can be worn to a oval shape or it may have been originally manufactured slightly out of round which makes installing a new round bush a difficult job.
If you have access to a lathe you can machine some new bushes to suit your springs. Measure each spring eye dimension and then make each bush to suit each eye.
You could fit a bronze liner into the machined steel bush , make the bronze liner thicker than required, press it in, then bore it to suit the pin diameter.
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Yeah Mike,
I actually have a lathe (yet to assemble in my workshop), but I think procurement method might be better time wise
My motto has always been if you have to spend a month making a small item, it's probably better to buy one.
I would probably have to practice for about a year to be good enough to turn out one bush. Better men than me have mastered lathes, I can skim a commutator and probably make a pin, but that's where my skills (and I am an electrical fitter) ends.
PS I have all my fingers...still
Cheers,
Ian