My father taught me a lot about mechanical devices, their nuts & bolts,
welding, hydraulics and more while growing up on a farm. I don’t often overtly use those skills living
in an apartment, but they are damned handy when I do need them.
A bearing has been failing on the right front castor of my
wheelchair. I had ordered a new one last
month ago from the vendor, ATG Rehab.
When the vendor was a mile from my home in Bellevue they were slow. Now they moved to Lynnwood and are owned ATG
Rehab with an even slower processes to getting new parts for my wheelchair.
Yesterday, the bearing failed completely and is frozen solid rendering
my wheelchair difficult to use and slow to go anywhere. This morning, I took the bearing assembly
apart. The bearing is still frozen, but
I loosened the axle bolt and so have a mechanical bearing instead of the
ball-bearing. It is much better than it
was, but still a farm-fix with a
damaged bearing.
I am grateful for the mechanical skills my father taught me growing up
on our family farm.
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