Originally Posted By cudaman1969
never saw flat spots on rollers, unless sprag was broken, thoreticaly impossible to slide under load (they break first or the springs have lost tension from heat


Again we disagree; rollers sliding is the initial failure mode IMO, the FSM even advises checking the rollers for flat spots. You have a roller and inner race that have highly polished surfaces...in reality it's a miracle of physics that they even hold.


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