Mainsheet Traveler Bearings Replacement

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During the summer one of the mainsheet traveler car 'bearings', I'll use the word loosely as they are big rings of a 'frictionless', perhaps Tufnol, material disintegrated after almost 40 years use. I'm looking to replace the 'big rings of frictionless material' with proper bearings. Does anybody know of a decent online bearing suppliers that will supply me with four bearings if I give them the size I need.
 
I've used 'bearingboys' and 'simply bearings'.
There's also an ebay seller who is a proper bearing supplier George something IIRC.
 
During the summer one of the mainsheet traveler car 'bearings', I'll use the word loosely as they are big rings of a 'frictionless', perhaps Tufnol, material disintegrated after almost 40 years use. I'm looking to replace the 'big rings of frictionless material' with proper bearings. Does anybody know of a decent online bearing suppliers that will supply me with four bearings if I give them the size I need.
As they lasted 40 years why not replace the balls. Presumably they are what's worn.
I got some for mine from Precision Plastic Balls
 
As they lasted 40 years why not replace the balls. Presumably they are what's worn.
I got some for mine from Precision Plastic Balls
These are not balls but 'donuts' and I need to replace one out of four, hence the idea of bearings. If they last another 15 years I'll be 75 and not expecting to be crossing any oceans, but you never know.
 
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