Larry-
The ST-745 bearings are not serviceable. The shaft is integral and cannot be removed, as far as I know. I have never heard of anyone removing it. I think the bearing races might be built into the shaft.
I don't have a part number handy for the aluminum housing spindles, but they are the current replacement for the 44/50" decks and newer, and were also used on a lot of different CCC machines with some minor variations in shaft length and pulleys, but the spindles themselves are basically the same. When my 44C needed new spindles, I used some spindles from a newer 48" lawn tractor deck from a 2000 series and shortened the shafts, and replaced the bearings and seals. The bearings for those are the same as the one of the front wheels bearings on millions of 60s-80s full-size Chevy cars, so they are cheap. Somewhere in my records I probably have the number for those too. Anyway, you can rebuild 3 of those for what one ST-745 bearing costs, or less.
Brian K.-
Somewhere I have the number for them, I'll have to dig it up after work.