You just can't get he customers these days......

There certainly is, as people find out when they can't get the impeller off and then distort it so badly it can't be balanced again

... then they ask me for an exchange one

No, on a Solo 2 they are ball races, and you really need high speed quiet bearings which can take the heat as well. Cheap bearings which are suitable for e.g. a photocopier don't fare so well in such an environment

I buy phosphor-bronze bearings already impregnated, and leave them in an oil bath until required

I understood the word was a corruption of 'Egyptian'.

I don't know how authoritative it is but Wiktionary supports this:

"Earlier Middle English gipcyan gyptian, < Old French gyptien, short for Egyptian < Latin Aegyptius; when they first appeared in England in the sixteenth century they were believed to have come from Egypt."

You mean like sorbet is "sorbett" and not "sorbay" ?

You must be doing something wrong then.

Adam

So sell some to that s***ty customer and he can put them on EBay.

I could flog him some "preloved" ones ...

Unfortunately, Norscreen is a well-known trading name and appears on all the products, moulded in in some cases. I have registered

Colin Bignell

In fact, they almost certainly originally came from Northen India. (Err, well /actually/ of course, almost certainly we /all/ came from East Africa ... but the ancestors of the Gypsies were in Northen India more recently than that).