The Bear (Ing) Minimum: Minimum Loads of Spherical Roller Bearings and Some Lubrication Basics
The Bear (Ing) Minimum: Minimum Loads of Spherical Roller Bearings and Some Lubrication Basics
The Bear (Ing) Minimum: Minimum Loads of Spherical Roller Bearings and Some Lubrication Basics
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If the SRB doesn’t cut it due to minimum load, there is a solution. A Shutdowns and Turnarounds
“double row self-aligning ball bearing” (SABB) can be used, and has the Total Productive Maintenance (Asset Care)
same external dimensions as an SRB up to a certain size range. This
bearing has a much lower minimum load rating, and in most cases, will run Training
cool and work well. However, be careful not to use this bearing as the Ultrasonics
fixed bearing in this application since these bearings don’t typically do well
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with thrust loads unless it is relatively light in comparison to the radial
load. They should mostly be used as the floating bearing in this fan/blower
scenario with the SRB utilized as the fixed bearing on the blower side,
taking both the radial and axial loads. I do realize, however, that there
might be applications requiring a different approach, but this fix could
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