re: HELP! Can anyone give me advice on replacing bearings on my planer cutterhead?

Robert,

Thank you for your advice. The knives and lock bars are already out of the cutterhead. I didn’t want to take a chance on damaging their edges.

The bearings are shielded. The reason for the replacement is that the race cage retainer broke and forced the shields off the bearing shown. Since it was already broken, removing the race cage retainer was fairly simple. The shields had the bearing number stamped in them so I know the correct size and it is readily available.

I had initially thought that I could push the cutterhead through the drive side assembly, but after tearing it down to where it’s at now, I measured and realized that 47mm just can’t fit through a 40mm opening. ;-(

Thus, the cry for help.

I’ll try some of your ideas on Friday to see if I can make it happen.

L/W