Induced Axial Load May 30, 2017 No Comments Every bearing that has a non-zero contact angle will generate an axial load as a radial load is applied. This generated load is referred to by a fe...Read More
There Must Be 50 Ways to Reduce a Duty Cycle (Part 2) May 23, 2017 No Comments Welcome to Part 2 of our duty cycle journey. In the first part, we reviewed how to take a duty cycle or one block of a duty cycle and reduce it to ...Read More
There Must Be 50 Ways to Reduce a Duty Cycle May 8, 2017 No Comments Man, oh man — 2017 is going to be one for the record books! My wife and I recently had the 3rd and FINAL installment of the Parker clan. A healthy ...Read More
Avoiding Bearings "Made in Wherever" February 21, 2017 No Comments You can always tell when times are good in the automotive market due to the flurry of acquisitions, mergers and divestitures. As we are coming off ...Read More
Demystifying Bearing Fit Practices January 16, 2017 No Comments Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a little time off over the holidays. We’re just getting into Michigan’s bi-polar winter season where leather co...Read More
He’s Back! December 8, 2016 No Comments Let’s welcome back Norm Parker — our bearings specialist blogger and contributing editor of bearings-based artic...Read More
Welcome Back! September 29, 2015 No Comments Last week in our bearing shaft and housing fit discussion, we covered the IT chart — along with the shaft and housing charts — just to understand t...Read More
Ball Bearing Fitting Series: Basics of Fit Charts September 22, 2015 No Comments I recently finished a decent-sized project where I had to define several ball bearing fits for a prototype — all with different fitting arrangement...Read More
Vehicle Outlook July 31, 2015 No Comments I don’t know about you, but the recession of 2008-2010 sticks in my mind like a bad penny. Since that time, I am never able to simply say ...Read More
Fitting the Inner Ring to the Shaft July 13, 2015 No Comments I don’t recall a time during the startup of a new program where an engineer unfamiliar with heavy load Read More Previous 1 2 Next