Pilot bearing and bushings

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A pilot bushing containing a good amount of iron or steel in the material's composition can and will cause this type of galling. It comes from a under lubricated, over worked condition that causes microwelding of the shaft to the bushing under extreme conditions of heat and load. Somewhere in the shaft's life, it has been used w/a iron/steel compound bronze bushing by the looks of it.
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Somewhere in the shaft's life (above), it has been used w/a pilot bushing that contained an iron/steel bronze compound by the looks of it. A pilot bushing containing a good amount of iron or steel in the material's composition can and will cause this type of galling. It comes from microwelding of the shaft to the bushing under extreme conditions of heat and load.  
  
An all bronze oilite bushing is basically incapable of such damage, the bronze being softer than the shaft causes the bushing to be sacrificed instead of the shaft.
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An all bronze oilite bushing is basically incapable of such damage; the bronze being softer than the shaft causes the bushing to be sacrificed instead of the shaft.
  
 
===Needle bearing (rolling element)===
 
===Needle bearing (rolling element)===

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