G'day...hoping someone may be able to help me out with some local knowledge on a bearing issue ......let me explain:

Recently acquired an old Servian Pedestal Drill press from a deceased estate and doing a minor resto starting on the quill. First up thought I would change the bearings. They aren't seized up or anything and could probably be repacked and left alone, but there's the start of an annoying grate much like a politician at a sausage sizzle so while it's apart, reckon it's time to change them as I will also be changing the donk to a variable speed and putting new pulley on the quill.

The bearings on it are stamped "Made in England - FBC - L610" but I cannot find any information on them nor does that lettering show up in any of the material I have.

Beauty of old English engineering is everything is legible and I measured them out as OD:2.25"; ID: 1" and Width : ~0.615.

Thinking I would like to replace them with some type of sealed or shielded bearing but afraid my knowledge is limited on what's the best way to go with them.....especially when I can't find a direct equivalent.

I don't have a fly or other press so may have to send them out to be removed and new ones fitted but was hoping to get newbies first and send them along with the quill to be fitted at the same time rather than not know what they have been replaced with....

Appreciate any suggestion you may have..................Lee


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