I don’t know why, but in recent years I’ve seen a rash of bearings with cracked inner races. Sometimes the damage was on relatively new machines with very few hours on them. Symptoms related to a ...

The right materials and geometry ensure off-center loads don't freeze a shaft inside the bearings. Experienced engineers and production personnel are generally well versed in the basics of slide ...

The blog I wrote several weeks ago about installing lock collars generated the question, “What if a lock collar is locked in the wrong direction during assembly? At worst, the lock collar will come ...