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I'm looking to replace my spindle bearings on the headstock of my Clausing model 100 MK3. It came with Timken tapered roller bearings. I have had the headstock apart once before and tried to order the bearings through Motion Industries and never got a reply from them. so, I gave up and lost the numbers of the bearings. Max Grant on You Tube said he used regular tapered roller bearings in a headstock on one of his lathes with no problems. That may be the route I have to go since precision bearings for it may either out of sight expensive or not available at all. I have tried to tighten the bearings by taking up any slack with the outboard bearing nut but seems I still have unreasonable deflection. I have the parts diagram for the lathe, but I do not think it calls out any bearing part numbers. TIA