OPE and OBE Bearing
OPE and OBE Bearing
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What's the difference between these two bearings out of curiosity?
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RE: OPE and OBE Bearing
What catalogue are you looking at?
Would these be angular contact bearings by any chance?
RE: OPE and OBE Bearing
RE: OPE and OBE Bearing
Thanks for those funny comments. If it was OBE it could be an old but everlasting bearing. They'd be handy for non-maintenance.
RE: OPE and OBE Bearing
RE: OPE and OBE Bearing
from googling.
another one: Opposite Pulley End
RE: OPE and OBE Bearing
I have seen codes like this applied to angular contact bearings. The problem with these, particularly small ones, is that you have to preload them with some controlled force. Even a small clamping screw can exceed the acceptable loads on small ball bearings. You can use wavy washers or other such spring elements to preload them.
Alternately, you can lap the bearing faces so that when you clamp the bearings face to face, you get the recommended preload. There are multiple ways to assemble these bearings, so there has to be a lapping setup for each configuration, hence some sort of code, such as possibly yours.
I was specifying this stuff out of the FAG spindle bearings catalogue, and I recall that their codes sound a lot like what you are quoting.
I suggest that you contact your motor manufacturer for an explanation. Unless these are special motors of some sort, my explanation is rather unlikely.
RE: OPE and OBE Bearing
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