I am running them because the stock ones hung up on me quite a bit. The HDs seem to slide a bit better. I would get the newer ones...My V1s are going to be a PITA to remove when the time comes.
You V1 guys can just run without the bottom 3 screws, Problem solved. Its not rocket appliances.
I have HD covers for the front and rear. I'm still waiting to hear back from SSD on the bearing issue.
What about foil tape? That copper tape stuff wrapped around the bearing? Surely the sticky tape backing will stop it from spinning off the bearing and add extra thickness.
We have been looking into this and doing some tests...
Firstly, it does not seem a great number of users have had this issue. Even when the bearings are super tight the pinion shaft will still have some play as bearings also have play. So a lot of the movement comes from the bearings anyway.
The bearing can probably tightened up by 0.02-0.04mm and still fit. We are going to do an update to the tooling in time but it is not something than can be done quickly.
The difference is too small to make a sleeve or anything like that.
We have looked at ways to make the bearings fit tighter now and have come up with a simple solution: Aluminum tape is very thin and easy to work with. You can simple wrap the outer face of the bearing with the tape to make it a tight push fit. Just clean up the edges of the bearing where tape is to make fitting easy.
Picked up some foil tape to see how this may play out. With one complete wrap of the inner and outer bearings the fit is nice and snug. It took a bit of effort to get the bearing seated. All the play is gone (except for the very minimal play in the
Axial SCX-10 G6 Rebuild by johnny anguish, on Flickr
How about this? Locktite Bearing Retaining Adhesive #641
Not a permanent adhesive like JB weld.
I do not have this problem as I'm old and drive my rigs boringly slow.
Just thought this might be an alternative that you could look into.
Tomas