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Air Bearings

Air bearings utilize a thin film of pressurized air to provide an exceedingly low friction load-bearing interface between surfaces. Air bearings avoid friction, wear and lubricant handling.

Angular Contact Bearings

Angular contact ball bearings use axially asymmetric races. The angle of contact on the inner race is the same as that on the outer race. These bearings are frequently used in bicycles.

Babbitt Bearings

Babbitt bearings are bearings made with copper, tin, and lead alloys. Babbitt metal is definite by its resistant to galling. Babbitt bearings are frequently used in automobile engines.

Ball bearings are rolling-element bearings that use balls to keep moving parts separated. This design reduces friction, as the fixes race stays in place while the free race spins around the rotating balls.

Bridge and Structural Bearings

Structural bearings and bridge bearings are designed for use in engineering and construction applications from conveyor lines to construction equipment and bridges.

Bronze Bearings

Bearings made of bronze are ideal for applications that require a durable bearing that can withstand extreme conditions.

Cam Followers

Cam Followers are needle or roller bearings designed to follow cams. The most important characteristic of a cam follower is the way the cam follower mounts to its mating part.

Ceramic Bearings

Ceramic bearings are ball bearings with ferrous races with ceramic balls instead of steel. Ceramic bearings offer many advantages including higher speed and acceleration and nonconductiveness.

Cylindrical Roller Bearings

Cylindirical roller bearings have a logarithmic profile for even stress distribution in the contact zones in the bearing. The bearing's surface finish maximizes lubricant film formation and optimizes rolling motion of the rollers.

Electric Motor Bearings

Electric motor bearings are designed for use in a variety of motion control applications. Electric motor bearing types include standard ball bearings and angular contact ball bearings.

Flanged Bearings

A flanged ball bearing is a type of ball bearing with a flanged side. The flange allows the non-flanged side of the bearing into a space while the flange keeps the bearing from completely entering the space.

Journal Bearings

Journal bearings are a type of plain bearing that features a simple rotating shaft design. These bearings have no rolling elements and are also compact, light weight, and have a high load-carrying capacity.

Linear Bearings

Linear bearings are designed to provide free motion in one dimension. There are many different types of linear motion bearings and which can be broken down into either rolling-element or plane bearing varieties.

Linear Bushings

Linear bushings are independent plain bearings that can be inserted into a housing to provide a bearing surface for rotary applications.

Miniature Bearings

Miniature bearings come in many bearing configurations like roller ball bearings and ceramic bearings but in smaller sizes as small as 1mm in diameter.

Needle Bearings

Needle bearings are heavily used in engine components such as rocker arm pivots, pumps, compressors, and transmissions.

Needle Roller Bearings

A needle roller bearing is a bearing which uses small cylindrical rollers. They are used to reduce friction of a rotating surface.

Nylon Bearings

Bearings can be made from a wide range of materials including nylons which is used in applications that require nonmetallic bearings.

Pillow Block Bearings

Pillow block bearings are mounted roller or plain bearings for supporting a rotating shaft with the mounting surface on a parallel line with the axis of the shaft.

Plastic Bearings

A wide variety of bearing types can be made from plastic when a specific application calls for nonmetallic bearings.

Rod End Bearings

A rod end bearing, also known as a helm joint, is a mechanical articulating joint used where a precision articulating joint is required.

Roller Bearings

A roller bearing carries a load by placing round elements between the two pieces. The motion of the pieces causes the round elements to roll with very little rolling resistance.

Rolling Mill Bearings

Rolling mill bearings are tapered roller and cylindrical roller types, both radial and thrust, that have been specifically designed for rolling mill applications.

Self-Aligning Bearings

Self-aligning bearings are ball bearings with inner ring and ball assembly contained in an outer ring that has a spherical raceway.

Self-Lubricating Bearings

Self-lubricating bearings can come in a wide variety of bearing designs and are ideal for applications where bearings are hard to access for maintenance.

Sleeve Bearings

Sleeve bearings are a type of plain bearing and are available in a wide variety of materials and in self-lubricating types.

Spherical Bearings

A spherical bearing is a bearing type that allows angular rotation around a central point in two directions. Usually these bearings support a rotating shaft.

Spherical Roller Bearings

A spherical roller bearing is a spherical bearing with a rolling element and allows angular rotation around a central point in two directions.

Tapered Roller Bearings

Tapered roller bearings are bearings that can carry large axial forces while being able to sustain large radial forces as well.

Thin Section Bearings

Thin section ball bearings come in a variety of types including radial retainer, fractured outer ring and angular contact.

Thrust Bearings

Thrust bearings are a type of rotary bearing. Like other rotary bearings they permit rotation between parts, but can simultaneously support a high axial load.

Bearing Distributors

This section provides a list of bearing distributors that can be sorted by region.

Bushings

Bushings are a type of plain bearing that are usually inserted into a housing to provide a bearing surface for a variety of rotary applications.

European Bearing Companies

A collection of bearing manufacturers and distrubtors from outside the United States.

Hobby Bearings

Bearings for specific hobby applications including RC vehicles, skateboards, skates, yo-yos roller blades and more.

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