Further Details about products in our Bearings range
View our full range of stocked UK bearings. You will find ball bearings, roller bearings, needle roller bearings, yoke bearings, tapered roller bearings, needle clutch bearings, trailer bearings, oilite bearings, oilite bushes, spherical roller bearings, rod end bearings, stainless steel bearings and Kukko bearing fitting tools.
Bearing Brands -
We carry large stocks of top quality bearings from two of the worlds largest bearings manufacturers for example SKF bearings & FAG bearings. To compliment our quality bearing range we have large stocks of RHP housed bearings, INA needle roller bearings & Medway rod end bearings. In addition, we can souce many other brands including NSK bearings, Timken taper roller bearings, Koyo bearings, Nachi bearings, NTN bearings & many others.
Budget Bearings -
We also do a full range of high quality cheaper bearings, ie our Budget range, for those applications where cost may be an issue.
Bearing Identification -
If you are strugling to identify your bearings contact us via phone, E-mail or online chat & we will be more than happy to assist. Just advise us of the bearings type, for example, 2 part taper roller bearings, deep groove ball bearings, roller bearings etc. Then simply measure the bearings to find sizes of the inside dia, outside dia & width. From this we will be able to do the rest.
Obsolete Bearings -
We can offer from stock a wide range of obsolete bearings from some of the largest past bearing manufacturers, including Hoffman Bearings, Polard Etc. If we do not have the obsolete bearing in stock, our Purchasing Department will do all they can to source your bearing.
Bespoke Bearings -
We can offer a bespoke bearing manufacturing service on oilite bearings, rod end bearings & spherical bearings. If you have a requirement where you can not find a standard bearing to match your requirements try us and we may be able to help you.
Bearing Applications -
The industrial bearings we sell are used in just some of the following applications/industrys:
Electric Motors
Agricultural - Tractors, Bailers, Combines,
Wind Turbines
Conveyors
Industrial Gear Boxes
Printing Machines
Wood Working Machines
Bicycles
Trailers including Boat trailers
CNC Machinery
Textile Machines
Aggregate Equipment
Cement Industry
Quarrying Machinery
Online Ordering -
By ordering your bearings online you can expect to recieve same day dispatch if ordered pre 5.00 O clock on all your bearings. In addition, you can expect free delivery on all bearing orders over £75.00.
Deep Groove Ball Bearings -
A deep-groove radial ball bearing is one in which the race dimensions are close to the dimensions of the balls that run in it. Deep-groove ball bearings have higher load ratings for their size than shallow-groove, but are also less tolerant of misalignment of the inner and outer races. A misaligned shallow-groove ball bearing may support a larger load than a similar deep-groove ball bearing with similar misalignment..
Ball bearings tend to have lower load capacity for their size than other kinds of rolling-element bearings due to the smaller contact area between the balls and races. However, they can tolerate some misalignment of the inner and outer races.
Compared to other bearing types, the ball bearing is the least expensive, primarily because of the low cost of producing the balls used in the bearing.
Although Leonardo da Vinci has been credited with the discovery of the principle behind the mechanics of ball bearings the first patent was awarded to Sven Wingquist from Sweden in 1907. Ball bearings were found on the Roman Nemi ships constructed in about 40 A.D
SKF Bearing Company -
SKF Svenska Kullagerfabriken AB, later AB SKF, is a Swedish bearing company founded in 1907, supplying bearings, seals, lubrication and lubrication systems, maintenance products, mechatronics products, power transmission products, customer solutions and related services globally.
SKF History
The company, founded on Sven Wingquists 1907 Swedish patent No. 25406, a multi-row self-aligning radial ball bearing. The patent was granted on June 6 in Sweden coinciding with patents in 10 other countries. The new ball bearing was successful from the outset. By 1910, the company had 325 employees and a subsidiary in the United Kingdom. Manufacturing operations were later established in multiple countries.
By 1912, SKF was represented in 32 countries and by 1930, a staff of over 21,000 were employed in 12 manufacturing facilities worldwide. Assar Gabrielsson, SKF sales manager and Björn Prytz, Managing Director of SKF were the founders of Volvo AB in 1926. In the beginning, the company functioned as a subsidiary automobile company within the SKF group. SKF funded the production run of the first thousand cars, built at Hisingen, in Gothenburg, beginning in 1927. SKF used one of the companys trademarked names: AB Volvo, which derives from the Latin I roll, with its obvious connotations of bearings in motion. The ownership of Volvo lasted until 1935 when the last shares were divested.
Today, SKF is the largest bearing manufacturer in the world and employs approximately 40,000 people in approximately 100 manufacturing sites that span 70 countries, With an approximate turnover figure of £5 billion & roughly a 19% market share. The SKF Bearing Group currently consists of approximately 150 companies including the seal manufacturer Chicago Rawhide. Since its founding, SKFs company headquarters have been located in Gothenburg. One recent acquisition was that of Economos, part of Salzer Holding, an Austria-based seal company, Jaeger Industrial and ABBA, Taiwanese manufacturers of linear actuators.
SKF Ball Bearings -
SKF Deep groove ball bearings are used in a particularly wide variety of applications. Consequently, they are available in many executions and sizes. The standard SKF Ball bearing range comprises the following types:
– single row deep groove ball bearings
– single row deep groove ball bearings with filling slots
– stainless steel single row deep groove ball bearings
– double row deep groove ball bearings
– single row hybrid deep groove ball bearings, see section "Engineering products - Hybrid bearings"
– single row deep groove ball bearings for high temperatures, see section "Engineering products - Bearings and bearing units for high temperatures"
– cam rollers, see section "Track runner bearings - Cam rollers"
– polymer ball bearings, see section "Engineering products - |
