Among a cluster of synchronized, quietly rotating mechanical parts, one shaft is emitting a bone-rattling squealing noise. Off the top of the maintenance engineer’s head, the bearing is probably running dry. The lubricating film is breaking down. That’s a good guess, one that might even hit the mark, but that supposition can’t be confirmed until […]
Delivering exceptional performance, Zen miniature inch series ball bearings range in size from a tiny 0.0781-inches to a still diminutive 0.3750-inch inner ring diameter. They’re available with flanged or standard edge profiles, based on the highest engineering standards, and built to satisfy the most challenging operational conditions. Having lauded their attributes, let’s view these ball […]
Instead of two individual bearings mounted on an overly stressed machine shaft, the architecture of this mounting element has adopted a more consolidated profile. There are the familiar but widened races, which accommodate two rows of rolling balls. The cage is similarly condensed. It’s now reconfigured so that it can restrain two rows of ball […]
Popular metric series bearings are small and built to maintain frictionless separation between undersized drive components. Profiled with stainless steel bore sizes that fit within the miniature 1-mm to 10-mm bearing gauge, miniature metrics are designed to support small medical devices, servo motors, and many other commonly used drive configurations. High-functioning metric bearings even support […]
An automobile, what most of us call a car, exists because of numerous engineering breakthroughs. Thanks to those technological milestones, people can drive anywhere, even offroad. But this is a wheeled vehicle, a machine that relies on many rotating mechanical parts, so it takes a special set of rolling elements to make vehicles move. There’s […]