Good Job! I didn't realize the bearing was a ball bearing, although I should have known after having mine out. There was a brass sleeve between the inner race of the bearing and the shaft on my column, so for it to rust to the shaft must have meant that the sleeve was missing on yours or the corrosion was worse than it looked.
BTW, if you're going to add pics, please add some light to the subject. Hard to see what's in that last pic of yours.
