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A panoramic view of the KTV (Koyo Training Vehicle)

Friday, April 13th, 2012

KTV (Koyo Training Vehicle) Panaramic view

Very impressive vehicle. While it was a wonderful day with all the activity, it felt good when it was over. The turnout was wondferful. Thank you to all that stopped by, and thank you to the Koyo representative and driver!

Until next time!!!

Koyo KTV Truck here until 2:00 pm CST today

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

An impressive show of technology on wheels is parked in our parking lot today. KTV Truck (Koyo Training Vehicle) on the inside is as impressive as it is on the outside.  The gentleman enjoying the coffee is Mr Cox, VP of Bearings Incorporated, and movtivator to bring the truck to our facilities at Bearings Incorporated.

Rhino Cleaning Supplies WHILE SUPPLIES LAST !

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Check out the ON SALE section of the website, Bearings Incorporated for Rhino Products.

Formulated from water soluble synthetic surfactants.  No hazardous chemicals.  Will not harm humans, animals, plant life, soil, lake water, or sewer.  Safe on all surfaces.

All surfaces consist of carpet, upholstery and clothing.  Leaves no residue.

Rhino 32958 Spray Cleaner / Degreaser

The Rhino  blue cleaner/de-greaser is safe on pain, wax gaskets and seals, and works on all surfaces including garage floors, patios, driveways, wooden decks, lawn furniture, golf clubs, siding, appliances, auto exterior and interiors, engine and parts, canvas, carpet, fabric and vinyl, all floors and walls and RV’s with a cost of $3.25

Rhino attacks grease, oil, grime, bug, pet and human stains, blood, food and drink stains, mildew, water stains, smoke and soot.

For heavy duty supply check out the Gallon Size All Purpose Cleaner for $9.50; good for grease, oil, grime, bugs, pet and human stains, blood, food and drink stains, mildew, water stains, and smoke and soot.  Safe for use on all surfaces … carpet, upholstery, and clothing leaving no residue behind.

 

Check out the other Rhino products

 

 

 

Bearings Incorporated wants to wish everyone a Safe and

Happy Holiday season.

Peer Large Bore Bearings, now available….

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

On our website, Bearings Incorporated; specifically within the Peer Bearing Category check out the Large Bore Series.  This is new to Peer Bearing, and they are as excited about it as we are .  These prices are in effect until December 31, 2011.  Check them out!! Electric Motor Quality, containing Mobile Polyrex EM Grease; they come in Open (C3), ZZD-C3 and 2RLD-C3.

Also check out our new Facebook connection and LIKE our page at Bearings Incorporated at Facebook!

As of November 2011 .. we are connecting to FaceBook ..

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

I’m still in the process of working on it .. and will post the link once I get it to the point of linking direct .. that way you could visit us on our Facebook Page as well …

Bearings Incorporated is hosting the KTV again …

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Koyo will be stopping by with it’s KTV on September 28th from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, and open to Bearings Incorporated past, present and future customers.

Koyo brochure 2011

Here is the printable brochure, and we hope to see you there!!

The Baldor-Reliance Super-E

Friday, August 19th, 2011

In the mid-1970s, a southeastern tire manufacturing plant asked Baldor if it were possible to increase the operating efficiencies of motors in their plants. Baldor engineers determined that considerable energy savings could be gained from a better motor design. By adding more copper to the windings, upgrading the laminations to a higher premium-grade steel, designing precision air gaps between the rotor and stator, and reducing fan losses in the motor, Baldor was able to supply the plant with the premium efficient motors it needed.

This was the birth of the Baldor Super-E®. Today’s upgraded and expanded Super-E product line offers some of the highest levels of efficiency in more than 600 stock motors rated from 1/2 to 15,000 horsepower. Super-E, severe duty, close-coupled pump, IEEE 841, washdown, and explosion-proof models are also available with a three-year warranty or better. (Our IEEE 841 motors have a five-year warranty.) Called a “key breakthrough” by the Consortium of Energy Efficiency, the Baldor Super-E was recognized by the CEE in 1998 as the first premium efficiency motor line to meet their stringent efficiency criteria citing, “For the first time, one manufacturer will carry all qualifying products.” In 2001, the CEE efficiency levels were adopted as the NEMA Premium® efficient levels and expanded to 500 horsepower.

 Premium Efficiency Pays for Itself

To understand what a motor really costs, compare initial purchase price with the cost of theelectricity it uses over its working lifetime. Often, too much attention is paid to purchase price. For most motors, this initial cost represents less than two percent of its lifetime cost. Electricity accounts for about 97 percent. Baldor Electric Company’s motors and drives save customers money every minute they operate. Whether it’s lower energy costs or greater reliability, these savings go straight to the bottom line. Baldor is the industry leader in overall efficiency ratings. Better than 96 percent of the energy used by some of Baldor’s Super-E motors is converted to mechanical work. The Baldo•Reliance Super-E runs cooler and longer with greater reliability than any other industrial motor. When you consider that a typical 50 horsepower motor costs over $36,000 to operate continuously in a year, it’s easy to see how just a few percentage points of higher efficiency can quickly reduce electricity costs. Even seemingly modest percentage point differences in efficiency ratings can yield substantial electricity cost savings when the motor is operating continuously every day.

Baldor Electric Company — First in Energy since 1920

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

The history of energy efficiency in industrial motors is really the story of Baldor Electric Company. For almost 100 years, Baldor has led the industry in developing products that deliver greater performance and reliability while using less electricity. From the company’s founding in the 1920s through today, Baldor has introduced one efficiency enhancing advancement after another. In fact, many of the advancements initiated by Baldor have later been adopted as industry standards.

The issue of energy efficiency for electric motors and drives is becoming increasingly relevant as electricity costs continue to rise. Companies are now competing in an environment of rising energy costs and the uncertainty of available electricity. These dynamics require the kind of forward-thinking industrial motor, drive, and generator supplier that anticipates customer needs and delivers products that save money and improve productivity. That company is Baldor.

 

Why is Energy Efficiency Important?

Electric motor-driven systems used in industrial processes consume some 679 billion kWh or 63 percent of all electricity used in U.S. industry, according to a Department of Energy report published in 1998. The report goes on to reveal that industrial motor electricity consumption could be reduced by up to 18 percent if companies were to apply “proven efficiency technologies and practices.” Specifically, the DOE recommends motor efficiency upgrades and application improvements. The purpose of this brochure is to show you the energy saving opportunities from using premium efficient motors and drives. The opportunities are real.

In 1992, the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) established minimum efficiency standards for industrial electric motors built after October 1997. Yet, only about 10 percent of all motors in use today comply with the minimum efficiency levels the Act mandates. When you factor in the savings potential of using adjustable speed drives in many applications, it’s easy to see that the environment, along with your profitability, stand to benefit significantly.

Timken Primary Processes / Thermal Treatment Processes

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

PRIMARY PROCESSES

HOT ROLLING

Hot rolled tubing has a surface finish comparable to hot rolled bars, plates or sheets of equal thickness. Light mill oxide covers both the outside and inside surfaces. Hot rolled tubing can be produced to outside diameter and wall dimensions with stated tolerances.

When a quotation for this highly specialized product is requested, we work closely with the customer to gain as much knowledge as possible about the end use. This enables us to apply materials with optimum dimensions to reduce costs.

COLD DRAWING

Cold drawn tubing is produced from hot rolled tubes that have been carefully inspected and properly surface-conditioned. Cold drawing consists of pulling a tube through a die and over a mandrel, reducing the diameter and wall thickness. Tubing is cold drawn for one or more of the following reasons: closer dimensional accuracy, better surface finish, smaller sizes than can be hot rolled, or to achieve certain mechanical properties. Cold working also imparts higher strength to the tubing and tends to improve machinability of carbon and lean-alloy steel.

ROTOROLLING®(Cold Pilgered)

Rotorolled tubing is produced from hot rolled tube shells that are conditioned for further reducing. Rotorolled tubes are produced on a machine designed to make large reductions of the cross-sectional area in one pass of the tube. The machine operates by cold swaging the tube between semicircular dies containing tapering grooves. The dies rock back and forth while the tube is advanced and rotated between rocking cycles over a long tapering mandrel. The developed contour of the die grooves forms a tapering circular pass that ends in a constant-diameter ironing section that establishes the OD of the finished tube.

Rotorolled tubing is a premium product with a surface condition superior to those obtained by cold drawing. Machinability is excellent. Dimensional tolerances are very uniform. Our ability to obtain large reduction ratios allows superior mechanical properties to be achieved.

Wall thickness of up to one-third of the outside diameter can be produced.

  

ROUGH TURNING                           

 Turned tubing is produced by machining the outside surface of the hot rolled tubing. This process removes surface defects and decarburization from the outside, but the inside diameter surface retains the hot rolled finish. This is accomplished in a machine where the tools are mounted in a ring and rotated around the tube. The only motion of the tube is lateral, through the ring and past the rotating tools. Turned tubing is used extensively in automatic screw machines for manufacture into ball and roller bearing races and for special applications where advantages can be taken of the close outside tolerance or clean outside surface. Any hot rolled size up to 8 inches OD can be rough turned. Surface finish approaches 125 RMS or better.

 

THERMAL TREATMENT PROCESSES

 ANNEALING

Annealing is heating uniformly to a temperature within or above the critical range and cooling at a controlled rate to a temperature under the critical range. This treatment is used to produce a definite microstructure, usually one designed for best machinability. It is also used to remove stresses; induce softness; and alter ductility, toughness or other mechanical properties.

HOT BED COOLING

This is the standard process of air cooling the tubing immediately following piercing on a special table or hot bed that continuously advances the tubing as additional tubes are finished. Tubing that is hot bed cooled may require additional thermal treatment to obtain optimum machinability or required mechanical properties.

MILL ANNEALING

Mill annealing is a controlled cooling of the tubing immediately following piercing which produces – in some low and medium carbon alloy grades – the optimum hardness and microstructure for machinability.

NORMALIZING

In this process, steel is heated uniformly to a temperature at least 99° F (37° C) above the critical range and cooling in air to room temperature. This treatment produces a recrystallization and refinement of the grain structure and gives the product uniformity in hardness and structure.

PROCESS TEMPERING

Process tempering is performed to improve subsequent fabrication of the material (machining, cold working, etc.). See Tempering.

QUENCHING (QUENCH HARDENING)

This processes heats steel uniformly to a temperature above the critical range and cools it rapidly in a liquid medium.

SPHEROIDIZE ANNEALING

This special type of annealing requires an extremely long cycle. Spheroidize annealing is used to produce a globular condition of the carbide and maximum softness for best machinability in some analyses or to maximize cold formability.

STRESS FREE

This designates tubing that has been hot rotary straightened. Minimal straightening stresses develop in hot rotary straightening, so stress relief tempering is not needed. Cold rotary straightening and stress relieving can substitute for hot rotary straightening.

STRESS RELIEVING

Stress relieving is a final thermal treatment used when stress-free material is desired. Its purpose is to restore elastic properties and minimize distortion on subsequent machining or hardening operations. This treatment is usually applied on material that has been heat treated (quenched and tempered). Normal practice is to heat to a temperature 99° F (37° C) lower than the tempering temperature used to establish mechanical properties and hardness.

TEMPERING

Tempering heats uniformly to a temperature under the critical range, holding at that temperature for a designated period of time and cooling in air. This treatment is used to produce one or more of the following end results:

  • To soften material for later machining or cold working. Also referred to as a Process Temper.
  • To improve ductility and relieve stresses resulting from prior treatment or cold working.
  • To produce the desired mechanical properties or structure in the second step of a double

DIFFERENT CAGES FOR DIFFERENT BEARING NEEDS… (Part 4)

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

COMPOSITION CAGES (CR)

Composition cages combine light weight, precision and oil-absorbing features which are particularly desirable for use on high speed applications. This (CR) cage is a ring-piloted type and is available in Timken’s patented channeled construction for very high-speed applications. It is particularly associated with the outer-ring piloted, extra precision WO series bearings

SPECIAL CAGES

For certain very high contact angle, light section aircraft bearings, molded nylon “snake” cages are employed, Cages are also made with high temperature materials in the various configurations described previously.

IRON SILICON BRONZE CAGE (SMBR) AND MACHINED STEEL CAGE (MSR)

The SMBR and MSR cages are ring-piloted. The advantages of these cages are high strength even at elevated temperatures as well as high-speed capability due to the ring-piloted construction. In many cases these cages are silver plated for use in applications requiring high reliability.They are available in both ball and roller bearings.