David Morrow
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I was looking for some ball bearings recently - 1/2" OD and they were surprisingly difficult to find. Given how common bearings are, I would have thought it would be a snap to find. It turned out that I had some in a box of bearings from a garage sale. But then, just the next day, I was looking in a woodworkers supply catalog and found exactly what was spec'd. Some woodworkers use template bits in their routers and the bit uses a bearing to run along the template. So, if you get really stuck, specialty tool stores will carry the bearings for these bits for sale separately. In Canada, we have Lee Valley Tools and they carry them. I don't know who the big guys are in the US, but you will have a few I'm sure. Maybe even Home Depot ?
Lee Valley has them as small as .250" OD and as large as 1.125"
Here's Lee Valley's page:
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=30124&cat=1,46168,46180
Edit to clarify: buy at your local woodworking store may mean getting your bearings much quicker locally rather than having to go the mail / web order route.
Lee Valley has them as small as .250" OD and as large as 1.125"
Here's Lee Valley's page:
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=30124&cat=1,46168,46180
Edit to clarify: buy at your local woodworking store may mean getting your bearings much quicker locally rather than having to go the mail / web order route.