Hi Brent. Catching up here. I am so happy the forum is back and nice to see you posting again! There is a very informative video on Youtube by AnaDiaLog I think about onzow and the like. Needless to say I will never use these products again. Take care. David

Hey Gene. Its nice seeing some of the folks coming back from the old forum. I really wish they could restore our legacy user info and history. Starting from scratch is a bit frustrating. I think my current user name is the same. PS. Rangers Fan? I presume. I am in the Dallas area

Back when folks were replacing the steel ball bearings with ceramics we used a drop of thickened superglue. That was years ago now. Still going strong.

Back on the old forum there was an amazing thread that started with a discussion by BRF to replace the bearings with ceramics along with Sapphire thrust plates. Back when, I published a picture croniligy of my process following BRFs lead. Hey BRF if you see this, A big hello from Texas. To easily remove the old steel balls, I used a dremel cut off wheel to cut a slot in the top of the old ball. Then used a screwdriver to remove the bearing. Worked beautifully with no force. That is one of the threads I hope Mat can recover. It was full of amazing information.

That's great Mat. Looking forward to the rebirth of the forum. So happy for you and Jane on the beautiful addition to your family. I guess a Jonathan cartridge will be in our future. Congratulations! 👍👍👍