A lot happened in the last 24 hours and I’ll divide everything that happened over a few days!
For starters, I figured out how to disassemble my Morgan Sign Company Write-A-Sign poster/showcard press to clean it and clear out junk I could see in the tracks. The roller and bearings didn’t glide across the rails smoothly.
Fortunately all my bike tools were perfect for this press and I was able to take it apart, clean the bearings as much as I could, regreased them, and reassembled everything. Even before I took it apart, I could tell the roller was drifting side to side on the rails and only two bearings would touch the rails at a time.
I did my best to tighten them to travel straighter, but the roller still lurches from the bearings as it travels across. I think it’s partially because there is still stuff stuck in the bearings, but also because one rail is gouged out slightly from misuse from a previous owner.
It rolls 100 times better, but I need to track down compatible bearings for the rails and maybe flip the rails so the gouged part is at the bottom rather than at the top by the paper clip.
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