How are spherical bearings manufactured?
How are spherical bearings manufactured?
(OP)
Don't ask me why, but today at work I started wondering how the heck a spherical bearing is manufactured? I started digging around on the internet, but so far I haven't come up with any info. I also searched through all of my college text books, but still didn't find any info. So my question is this...how the heck do they make them? I can't figure out how you would get the sphere inside the race without damaging something!
I hope someone can shed some light on this, because it's one of those things that's going to drive me nuts until I find the answer.
I hope someone can shed some light on this, because it's one of those things that's going to drive me nuts until I find the answer.





RE: How are spherical bearings manufactured?
RE: How are spherical bearings manufactured?
Can't find anything to confirm this however.
RE: How are spherical bearings manufactured?
RE: How are spherical bearings manufactured?
However, the original question was about "spherical rod end bearings"; surely some are made as MintJulep conjectured and Kenneth confirmed. Some are made without coldforming, and have a slot arranged so that the truncated ball can be inserted crossways and then reoriented. Some are made with multipiece housings joined by cold forming. And some are clearly made by injecting the plastic liner in a molten state.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: How are spherical bearings manufactured?
RE: How are spherical bearings manufactured?
Therefore, it is not advisable for a general user to know the method of bearing assembly/disassembly as he might end up mix-matching the components.
RE: How are spherical bearings manufactured?
You think _we_ are 'general users'?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: How are spherical bearings manufactured?
Of course not!
Please bear in mind that anyone can access this website.
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Franz
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RE: How are spherical bearings manufactured?
Also, I didnt see anything about a sepherical rod end, only sepherical bearing, like the common ball bearing. BTW, that was an excellent link for the sepherical rod end.
Franz
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