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Notes

Practical notes. Not a magazine.

• 12 March 2026

  Pilot-bore vs taper-lock: what we actually machine

  A pilot-bore hub is a blank. A taper-lock hub is a system. Mixing the two on a breakdown is how you lose an afternoon.

• 3 February 2026

  Jaw coupling inserts: when yellow isn’t the answer

  92 Shore yellow is the general-purpose AROFLEX spider. It is not the only one, and it is not a torque limiter.

• 18 November 2025

  Washdown bearings: what fails first in a bakery

  Water and caustic get in. Grease gets out. The steel rusts. That is the sequence. The catalogue photo is not a hygiene rating.

• 7 September 2025

  Reverse-engineering an obsolete worm wheel

  If the OEM is gone, we need the old wheel or a decent sketch. A photo of a photo is how you get the wrong ratio.