Posts Tagged ‘radial bearing’

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!!!

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!

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!!

Timken Extra-Precision Bearings Part 2 of 4

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

BALL BEARING TYPES

Non-Filling Slot Type

M-K and MM-K type ball bearings are designed to carry radial, axial or combined loading. Because of the fully shouldered inner and outer races, these bearings can carry axial load in both directions and have relatively high-speed capability.

Annular Contact Type

2M-WI and 2MM-WI types, with 12° contact angles, maximum complement of balls, and one-piece inner ring-piloted retainers are designed to meet the needs of machine builders for extra-precision bearings which will operate with minimum temperature rise for a wide range of speeds and operating loads. In order for machines to produce more accurate work at a higher production rate, the bearings must provide a high degree of rigidity in both axial and radial directions. For example, on precision turning machines, cutting tools impose heavier loads on bearings than those en­countered in precision grinding. In the former, speeds are slower and loads heavier than in the latter, where speeds are high and loads light. 2M-WI and 2MM-WI types give machine builders the flexibility required to meet such variations in application requirements

 

3M-WI and 3MM-WI types, manufactured with 25° contact angles, maximum complement of balls, and one-piece inner ring pilot retainers are designed primarily for use on applications where the loading on the bear­ings is predominately thrust and a high degree of axial rigidity is a definite requirement, or when a closer balance between the axial and radial bearing spring constants is required. Typical applications for these bearings are large, vertical, rotary-surface-grinders, horizontal and vertical disc-grinders, heavy-duty lathes, boring machines and milling machines.

2MM-WO types, with 18° contact angles, are de­signed for extremely high-speed applications where the centrifugal force of the balls must be considered. Unlike the MM-WI type which has counterbored outer rings and inner ring land piloted retainers, the 2MM-WO type has full shoulders on both sides of the outer race and a low land on one side of the inner ring. This design permits assembly of a maximum complement of balls and a one-piece channeled retainer piloting on the pre­cision ground lands of the outer ring.

Ball Screw Support Bearings

To meet the requirements of the highly sophisti­cated numerically controlled machinery field, The Fafnir Bearing Company has developed a new family of ball bearings especially designed for ball screw applications. The design criteria for these bearings are maximum axial rigidity, low drag torque and extreme control of lateral eccentricities. These bearings have been used successfully on all types of tape controlled machinery, precision instruments, missiles, and slide actuators or in-feed mechanisms used on standard machine tools.

Timken Bearings- Quality and Performance Come Standard

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

The Timken name stands for high quality and outstanding performance.  Using their capabilities in bearing technology, manufacturing, engineering support and distribution, they provide their customers with smart, cost-effective friction management and power transmission solutions that help outperform the competition.

Expanded Housed Unit Offering

From the manufacturer that brought you reliable Fafnir® ball bearing housed units and Timken® SAF® pillow blocks comes a growing line of roller housed units. We’ve expanded our offering to include Timken® Type E housed units featuring our own advanced tapered roller bearings and seals.

The latest innovation is their  new series of Timken®

Type E roller housed units. Timken engineers have applied more than 110 years of expertise in bearing design — and leadership in tapered roller bearings — to bring you an optimized performance tapered roller bearing housed unit. They have improved thier own design to create the new standard in performance.

The Timken brand stands for outstanding quality in everything they do, from product design and manufacturing to engineering support and distribution.

Timken’s commitment to quality, service and delivery adds up to an unbeatable value for customers everywhere.

Quality Solutions

As the only premium bearing manufacturer to also make super-clean, high-alloy bearing steel, Timken knows how critical quality materials are to product performance.

They have also implement the Timken Quality Management System in every plant worldwide, so each bearing product meets the same high performance standards — no matter where in the world it is manufactured.

Dependable Service

Their roller housed units are backed with the service of Timken’s industry-leading experts who are ready to assist you with product design, application knowledge and 24/7 field engineering support — anything you need to help improve uptime and maximize equipment performance.

On Time Delivery

Timken Bearings know short lead times are critical to keeping your operations up and running. Many of their Type E roller housed units are in stock for immediate shipping. For special orders, They work quickly to manufacture and deliver your products on time.

 

We are keeping on sale …

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Timken 204RR6 Lawn mower deck bearings

 .. Still can be bought for $10.00 each (plus shipping and handling)

and

NSK 6205DDUC3 Electric Motor Quality Bearing

…. Still can be purchased for $6.12 each .. (plus shipping and handling)

 

Check them out NOW  .. they have been extended until July 31st, 2011 ..

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

A few more days ….

Friday, June 24th, 2011

On sale … NSK 6205 DDUC3 Electric Motor Quality Ball Bearing

Check out the detail specifics here .. 6205DDUC3 

Order it here … ORDER HERE

You have a few more days .. Take advantage of the savings … as it will go up again after the 30th ..

Oh oh .. Have run into a road block …..

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Help — I’ve fallen and can’t get up. 

Now that I’ve used the allotment of cliches where do I go from here.  Even the best of us run into brain blocks, and I’m no exception.  I have been doing research, and working hard learning the background information for the new website, www.bearingsinc.net that is soon to be launched.  I know “you’ve heard this all before”, but be assured that it is close to launch date, and it will change consistently once it is launched.  We want to make it better and easier for you to use. 

Right now, I have uploaded “most” of our Timken line; which is our biggest line.  This consists of both ball and roller bearings.  Ball bearings consisting of Angular contact, Wide inner ring, and Housed units. Roller bearings consisting of the Tapered Roller Bearings Cups, cones, and sets that Timken has always been famous for. 

I have also uploaded our Koyo Ball bearing line, which could offer some of the same parts as Timken.  We also have SKF-Chicago Rawhide currently uploaded which offers seals, and speedi sleeves.

In my plans, and my next uploading attempts consist of Koyo NEEDLE bearing line, and MBL (Mitsuboshi) belts.  These will cover quite a bit of items we can currently offer, but you need to watch the sight because once it’s launched, I will be configuring other databases to upload.  This way it will keep the sight changing, and interesting. 

New items = new choices = more options

While I’m not making any promises of a launch date; keep in touch and help us celebrate our launch when all of our hard work has finally come to an end.

Service Conditions Affecting Selection of Type — Part 3

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Shock Loads – Reversing Loads – Intermittent and Variable Loads

All bearings listed herein are capable of carrying for short intervals overloads and shock or reversing loads of an intermittent or variable nature, in excess of the ratings assigned.  Where these loads occur due to abnormal, seldom-repeated conditions, it is not necessary to provide additional capacity, but avoidable, suitable additional capacity is desirable.  Bearings are capable of carrying for short periods, loads 100% in excess of their capacity.  It should be remembered, however, that shock loads, even of short duration, can have the effect of much higher steady loads than is usually appreciated, and liberal allowances should be made under conditions of this sort.

Overloads

Aside from the abnormal shock load consideration, bearings may be regularly subjected to loads beyond their normal rating if for short periods of operation only, as in low gear speeds of automobiles and trucks.  Experience has shown that in cases of this nature bearings may operate satisfactorily for many years even though regularly exposed to low gear loads of from two to three times their rating.  Loads due to heavy starting torques and stalling torques may also be carried satisfactorily.  While these overloads can be handled by the reserve capacity of the bearing, it is always well to consider their nature and duration and make any allowance possible for them.  In other words, the mere fact that bearings have reserve capacityshould not suggest complete disregard for shock and overloads.  In some cases special retainers may be needed to meet severe conditions and consultation with the bearing makers engineering department is then most desirable.

High Speeds

Ball bearings operatevery satisfactorily at speeds beyond the range of satisfactory experience with plain bearings, and are today operating up to 50,000 revolutions per minute.  Speeds as high as 10,000 and 15,000 RPM are common.  With high speeds extra precision is generally desirable, and the Non-Filling Slot Type, having a completely symmetrical inner ring, offers more as regards perfect balance than the Maximum Type.  It is best with very high speed conditions to design the simplest bearing assembly possible using the Single Row Types; and the more complicated types, such as Double Row, Grease-Shield, and Felt-Seal Bearings, should not be used except when no other solution of the problem is possible.  Furthermore, since the Extra-Precision Bearings meet high speed requirements better than the standard tolerance bearings, they should be used at the higher speeds.

Misalignment

Housings and shafts should be processed in such a way s to make bearingseats as concentric as possible.  All shoulders, faces, etc., involved in the location of bearings should be square and true with the shaft axis.  However, in some cases it is not always possible to bring these factors into accurate relationship, and resort must then be had to self-aligning bearings of various designs.  The single row deep-groove bearing may be also supplied with slightly increased internal looseness to compensate for minor degrees of inaccuracy.  Where bearings are mounted in loose blocks or where parts cannot be accurately machined at succeeding operations, these points should be studied and compensated for by the proper selection in bearing type or by suitable changes in an otherwise standard assembly.

Outer Ring Rotation

In most applications the inner ring of the bearing rotates with the shaft and the outer ring is stationary in the housing. In loose pulleys and other similar applications, the shaft is stationary and the outer ring rotates around the stationary inner ring.  This calls for a type of mounting wherein the outer ring is tightly pressed into the bore of the housing and the inner ring is a slip fit on the shaft,thus insuring the driven element of the ball bearing (in this case the outer ring) rotating positively with the housing.  Since the rotationof the outer ring produces a greater ball speed than if the inner ring were rotated at the same RPM, it is necessary to compensate for this condition by applying a correction factor.  The actual RPM of the outer ring is multiplied by this factor, and the load rating determined from the tables for this speed. This then is the capacity of the bearing when the outer ring rotates.

These factors are:

  • Light Series ——- 1.5
  • Medium Series — 1.7
  • Heavy Series —–1.9