[AT] Spam> bearing cross-reference

[Larry Goss]

Ah, but we had slide rules, John, and with those, we could design anything.  I still have a 6-foot classroom slide rule hanging above the cabinets in our home office -- just in case the power goes off and the batteries go dead.

In the deep recesses of my mind, I seem to remember that all ball bearings are metric -- always were, always will be. I used to have the three volume set of bound Timken catalogs here at home, but I finally realized that I didn't need to continue providing storage for them, and I got rid of them a year or so ago.

Larry
 

----- Original Message -----
From: John Hall <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 20:56
Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> bearing cross-reference
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> What amazes me is way back when this old stuff was made, how 
> they were able 
> to hold the close tolerances in a production environment and 
> manage to 
> output a decent volume. Heck, today we're using computer 
> controlled 
> equipment and they didn't even have calculators!
> 
> John
> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 9:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> bearing cross-reference
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: markagreer at embarqmail.com
> >> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:44:04 -0500
> >> Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> bearing cross-reference
> >>
> >> Many of those bearings that had IH numbers on them were 
> actually made by
> >> MRC, Fafnir, or Timken and just had IH numbers on them.
> >> Mark
> >>
> >
> > I spent a day in tour of this Barden plant in Danbury Ct. one 
> time.  It 
> > was very interesting to see the inner and outer races being 
> centerless 
> > ground and to see the huge clean room where all assembly is 
> done.  The 
> > motto for the assembled bearings is "never touched by human 
> hands". 
> > Sadly, due to time constraints we were unable to tour the ball 
> > manufacturing plane which was at another location.  I do 
> not think FAG 
> > bearings were part of the product at that time.
> >
> > Charlie V. in WNY
> >
> >
> > http://www.bardenbearings.com/about.htm
> >
> 
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