My homebuilt wrapper uses the chuck and support from the pac-bay machine. It has worked fine for a few years now, but as bearings do, the cartridge bearing is wearing out and causing some slop. I contacted pac bay about this, and they tell me that I have to replace the whole support, not just the bearing. It is very disheartening to me that I am going to have to spend 25 bucks to replace a bearing that I could probably get from a bearing shop for less than a buck. I feel like they should have thought about this when they designed it, as bearings do wear out. I wonder if anyone ese has had a problm with this and if there is a remedy. I hate to buy the same part again just to have it wear, and I can't afford to upgrade to the clemens or renzetti lathe right now. I do not mean to bash Pac-bay, because I think that they make a fine line of rod components, and I will continue to use them,I am just dissapointed with what I think is a design oversite.

If you can get the bearing out, measure it and check out alternator rebuilding shops (maybe on the web). They use tons of different size bearings. You might get one there. I built my own unit using alternator bearings.

Please feel free to contact me. I am sure that I have the part that you need.
Bob Batson
Rainshadow Rod Blanks
Forecast Rod Components

finding the bearing is not a problem, it looks to be a pretty comon size,similar if not the same as the ones I can get through the bike shop where I work in the summer, I just can't see the number on it untill I get it apart. Getting it apart is the problem, everything is pressed together, and I haven't dared trying to hammer the shaft out of the pulley for fear I will bugger it all up or bend the pully, then I will really be SOL, at least I can wrap with it now, I just have trouble shaping cork because the thing flops all over and the grip gets high spots.

hello if you have the stand with the metal pully you can heat it and it will come of.i had the same problem.the new drive stands use a plastic drive pully i don't know how you get them apart.good luck regards John Bratton