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Old 09-11-2010, 07:41 AM   #4
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RE: 2002 Mainship Sliding door rollers

Your rollers came with ordinary steel ball bearings, hence the failure. You can replace with the same, from Home depot, or search for all stainless, and get many more years than the originals. Search online. I found some from a hardware supplier in North Carolina that shipped to Vancouver. Years ago and I don't have the old invoice any more, sorry. Those came with aluminum track to ride on, but that corroded and wore low spots, so I recently replaced the tracks with SS. Those from Speedy Glass, who sell them for domestic sliding door retrofit. Now smooth running, and should last for quite a while.
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