Have you ever wondered how things like in line skate wheels and electric motors spin so smoothly and quietly? The answer can be found in a neat little machine called a bearing. It makes many of the machines we use every day possible. Without it, we would be constantly replacing parts that wore out from [...]
A mechanical bearing is simply termed as a device to permit constrained relative motion between two parts, typically rotation or linear movement. Bearings used in spindles have undergone various incremental improvements these days. The hybrid ball bearings using ceramic balls are more popular as compared to the steel bearings. But nowadays, besides the traditional bearings, [...]
There are several types of thrust bearings which we can look at but before we go further let us look at what a thrust bearing actually is. A thrust bearing by definition is a type of rotary bearing where they allow the rotation of two parts, but the slight difference with a thrust bearing is [...]
