Bobco, I probably made it sound harder than it is. The bearings slip on the outside of the shaft. The two outside bearings have to be supported someway. I use the inside corner of my countertop. If you wanted to support the shaft by the two outboard bearings with your hands and have someone apply downward pressure with the middle bearings you could do it that way too. All you want to do is put a slight bend (flex) in the shaft. As it is flexing it will rotate in the bearings. |-------|--------|

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Kind of get the idea? Let me know if I can help.