We all have tried it once, carrying all of our shopping bags from the food shop into the house in one go. To avoid an extra trip to collect out the rest. Here, bearing manufacturers state the different kinds of load. So let’s get into the deal that how bearing’s ability can help maximize bearing longevity.
Once in a while, our arms can deal with an extra heavy load, but bearings and bushings usually can’t cope with weight overload.
Most manufacturers like hi-bond agree that approximately 10% of bearing failure is caused by an inappropriate choice of bearing in either size, design, or load-carrying capacity, impacting bearing life. Such negligence can cause significant damage to the bearing and the machine, which can be too costly for a plant manager.
Deceptive rating data
Choosing a bearing and bushings should be simple. The measurement of a bearing for any application decides based on its load-carrying capacity. It should be in relation to the loads to carry and the requirements about reliability and life.
The grab of the decision depends on knowing the demands application’s and understanding the way the bearings are rated in the first instance. The size and material of bronze sleeve bearings are categorized under their static radial, dynamic radial, and axial load rating. Yet, these ratings can often be deceptive data.
To get the best ratings from your bearings, limit the actual load to between 6-12% of the bearing’s dynamic load rating. This load rating differs according to bearing material.
Overbearing weakness
When excessive loads are imposed on a bearing, the bearing steel will experience premature wear out. Subsurface cracks will occur, and it spreads to the bearing raceway in the form of flaking.
It is usually accompanied by a heavy ball wear path and will put your whole bearing manufacturer’s system at risk. Excess loading can be caused by insufficient internal clearance. If the bearing’s residual play is reduced too much by a tight shaft, the bearing will be overloaded.
Static radial overloading can also create problems. A very high static load can occur in overloading. If the bearing, or the part in which it is dropped or an incorrect fitting procedure is used.
Long lifecycle loading
To increase your bearings’ life cycle and avoid an unnecessary shutdown of systems. You can select a Hi-Bond bearing that will handle the expected loads.
Avoid sudden loads to bearing, pay attention to internal clearance. And, keep in mind that running the bearing at not more than 12% of its dynamic load rating will provide the best bearing life.
Get in touch with bearing manufacturer’s experts; they can help you extend the bearing lifecycle. And help you to achieve your bearings’ potential with low maintenance issues and lower replacement costs.
Bearing for those who aren’t bulking up
Bearing and bushing suppliers are now offering a small batch of relubrication service. People are searching for bearings with specialized grease to buy or re-lubricate a few of them. Now they will no longer need to meet the least order requirements that can often exceed 1000. It will support cost-effective applications and encourage the use of grease to ensure bearing longevity.
This manufacturing service means that abundant standard bearings can now be bought and re-lubricated with specialist grease that follows the customers’ application.
Bearing failure is usually due to the wrong quantity or type of grease for the application. Bearings for high speed and high temperature are all assigned with the Hi-Bond Bearings technical team’s appropriate oils and greases.
Non-standard bearings
Customers may have faced the least order quantities from manufacturers. It results in them buying bearings in volumes that they don’t need. The big manufacturers prefer to produce bearings and bushings in bulk. It creates a two-fold problem for those who are looking to buy non-standard bearings.
Bearings with non-standard lubricants supplied by many bearing manufacturers are generally available in bulk quantities with very long delivery periods.
The best alternative often is to use bearings with a lubricant that is not suited best to the application. The customers have bought shielded linear sleeve bearings that are difficult to get into. We have the equipment to remove the bearing’s standard lubrication. And replace it with specialized grease, regardless of the quantity.
Select the best bearing!
When you select the bearing from a bearing manufacturer that best fits your needs, it’s essential to remember that inappropriate loads create increased wear out and risk of bearing failure. It is the same as when your arms get tired by showing heroic efforts to carry a week’s whole lot of food into the house in one go. The only difference is that tired arms don’t cost hundreds or thousands of pounds in plant maintenance. If you are searching to buy or re-lubricate a few bearings, then you will no longer need to spend money on bearings that you will never use.
