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kerinorton said:

I also recently bought 2 wheel bearings off ebay that were advertised as -2RS (which is a sealed bearing, rubber shielded both sides) The bearing that came is an -RS bearing (rubber shielded one side) I have an email out to the seller and he's not replying to my email. I used the bearings because they are a rare size, but because it's in a custom application there aren't any stock grease seals available for that wheel I am using them in, so I had to use the sealed side toward the outside which limits my ability to regrease the bearings without pulling one of the bearings out of the wheel... The bearings will be good for a very long time, but they aren't a "2RS" as advertised, and the seller should make that clearer in his ad. I would have bought them anyway since this bearing size is hard to find, but stuff should be what a seller says it is... not something similar.


Interesting comment here.

Question, How were you going to lube the bearing if both sides were sealed, if you could not do it with one side sealed. [ I know how. But the comment is irrelevant to the conversation if that is all the problem was ]
Just being nitpicky. Because I can. [ and nothing better to do right now apart from going to bed ]

sorry

Dereck

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It's not an irrellevant comment. I bought something on ebay that wasn't what it was advertised as, exactly like the bike the original poster bought that was advertised as matching numbers bike, but wasn't... How is that not similar?? I followed up with an email to the seller, because he's advertising "2RS" bearings for sale, but he sends out "RS" bearings. My story was just another example of how people on ebay tell you one thing, but the product is something else...

In my case, I needed those hard to find size bearings for my custom wheel application, but the fact that I couldn't mount the bearing with the open side facing out, because my custom application doesn't lend itself to an "off the shelf" grease seal meant that I had to either make a grease seal pronto to use the wheel right away, or mount the open side facing inward on the wheel.

If I had a 2RS bearing, the grease would be sealed in and the dirt mostly sealed out which is less of a headache...

WTF is your "I know how" comment?? Are you testing me to see if I know how to re-grease a 2RS bearing?.. I'm not waving my dick around here, so I don't need you to quiz me on what I know and don't know... You commented some stupid shit on my "sprocket size" thread too, but you didn't read my original post well enough to realize that I don't have a stock rear wheel, so I can EASILY change my rear sprocket size, because my brake drum on the rear wheel is on the bike's right side... which you missed reading prior to your irrellevant comment...