Surely there’s already enough bearing fatiguing forces in play? Thrust forces pull at rolling elements while micro welds roughen point contact zones. Spalling races create noise and excessively high thermal envelopes while heavy loads threaten to crack stainless steel rollers. Making matters worse, lubricant incompatibility hardships can leach a bearing’s slippery properties. The oily stuff, […]
If you’ve ever had to dig through your toolbox to fix something, you know just how many fittings there can be. At Global Bearing Imports P/L, we understand that it can be hard to keep up with all of the special fittings and components that are out there. In order to help you out, we […]
Classed as rolling contact devices, anti-friction bearings operate on a well-recognized principle. Their rolling elements are in contact with one another. Set in motion, the lubricated rollers power along, and between, two rings while locked inside a caging mechanism. For hydrodynamic bearings, a whole other process is taking place. Instead of a group of solid […]
Generally, the inner ring of a rotating bearing locks tightly against a shaft so that the two mechanical parts can spin as one. In order to accommodate this operation, massive amounts of pressure force a slightly smaller ring opening onto a slightly larger shaft circumference. That’s how press fit fastening works. Regrettably, this high-tolerance press […]
Rolling elements, just like human beings, are expected to handle stress. Now, people do succeed in dealing with such pressures, at least to some degree or other. For bearings, it’s a little harder. They can’t adapt, not easily. No, to properly deal with load-induced stress, their carrying capacity should be determined before they’re pressed into […]