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I thought I saw a light at the end of the tunnel, but it was some mongrel with a candle and bastard blew it out before I got there.

If the marking is C3 it means that it has a C3 clearance. If your motor housing is made of an alloy material I would suggest using a C3 clearance bearing. The reason for a larger clearance bearing is that during extended operation the moter heats up and the alloy material and the steel bearings expand at different rates, the larger clearance is to cater for this so the internal clearance on the bearing does not get too tight and increase the friction causing the bearing to over heat. Once the bearing over heats the lubricant become too thin and becomes inefective or starts to leak out as it gets more liquidous cause premature bearing failure. I have been in the bearing industry for 15 years as a technical and applications engineer. I trust this helps you.

Thank you for your kind assitance and instruction JasonB, I will follow the links.

Lambton: If you read the post I did say that I may have posted this in the wrong section, and I was not aware that what I said had bad language in it and I also didn't realise that people would be so sensitive, my appologies.

I hope my previous post and this explains my position, so lets please just move on, thank you for out lining your concerns they have been taken on board.

That said I do call a spade a spade and if that offends anyone please advise me if I have.

Well my applogies regard the post post to Diane and withdraw my comment aimed at her. I have also sent an email to My Time Media and all I got was a machine generated response.

The way this site is set up it looked as if Diane had responded to other topics after mine was posted and due to the frustation and the complicated way this site opperates it was just the last straw. I did also state that I may have posted this in the wrong section as I could not find an appriate section to post it in, but again there was no guidance or responce correcting me from anyone on this forum. Soo my frustrations just kept boiling. Again my appolgies for the language also.

As stated I am new to this site and have never come across such a dog's breakfast and lack of instructions or even where to find them. I just want to subscribe to a darn magazine, I have subscribed to quite a few other online also from o/seas and none of them required you to a science degree to do it, why make it soooooo complicated, I would rather spend my time in the shed instead of spending hours going over a website trying to subscribe.

Thanks Diane for not even to bother acknowledging my post even it might be in the wrong area as I don't know where else to post it. As a newbie my post has had to be approved by moderator prior to it being posted and it's pretty P*** poor that there has been NO acknowledgement of my concerns or answers to my questions, WHY DID I BOTHER???? Obviously being from o/seas my money or subscription is not worthy of your valuable time. Thanks for nothing.

When I renovated our kitchen I installed the old kitchen in the shed. Lots of cupboard space underneath the solid laminated work top, and some overhead cabinets for lighter odments. I also made a new base with castors for the bandsaw using old dexion shelving angles, and 4 benches with castors. 1 bench holds the 2 grinders, another hold a small timber bandsaw and linisher, another for the dropsaw, ad finally one for the sandblasting cabinet. This way I can move them into place when needed. I also built another shed big enough for the garden tools and it has racks for timber and steel supplies. Next will be building a 3rd shed to house my restored stationary engines.

It's simple, do as the wife says and you get rewarded with more sheds, tools and machinery. Just remember "Happy wife Happy life" After you have completed all the wife's job list make sure you become a real pain so she sends you to the dog house (my sheds) that way I can get some machining done LOL

Hello everyone, I have just signed up to this forum today and I am from Australia. I am trying to subscribe to both your Model Engineer and Model Engineers Workshop publications.

I am totaly frustrated now as I feel you make it extremely difficult for people overseas to subscribe as you don't have credit card or paypal methods of payment available. Also ther is no where that I can find a subscription package that covers both mags and as far as I'm concerned they go hand in hand.

And my final dissapointment is that only UK buyers get the special subscription gifts when we overseas tend to pay a premium due to postage, are not good enough to be able to take advantage of special offers. I have been buying your magazines for some years now but lately the intermitent availabilty here has let to me missing out on issues. I am quite dissapointed, your web site is very confusing and hard to get around and most of all I feel your online subscription process is complicated and confusing. If you are to attract more subscribers I seriously suggest you simplify the process and offer aditional payment methods for o/seas subscribers.