Having a day job that tends to fill my week I rely on online sources
for many bits.
I'm after some bearings (RLS9 and RMS10) and all the usual online bear
suppliers seem to only stock imperial sizes as "budget" bearings.
Given that if these bearings fail it's two days work to even remove it
I tend to avoid "budget" sources.
Is my prejudice fair? Does anyone know of an online supplier that
sells branded bearings as reasonable discounts? The bearing sales
trade appears to have the largest mark up of anything I know!
Thanks
Charles
Perhaps a silly question, have you spoken to Arc Euro Trade (01162695693)?
They are distributors for Timken (incl. Torrington, Fafnir, Nadella) and
Nachi as well as Chinese sourced bearings. If you are going to the
Midlands Model engineering exhibition at the Warwickshire Exhibition
Centre this Fri. 14th to Tues. 18th Oct. you could talk to them at their
stand.
Alan
PS or try getting them from the USA via eBay or whatever. I got a
couple of SKF main bearings for an AJS cheaper (less than half
price!!) including post etc posted from USA.
Richard
Charles,
Try an authorised NSK dealer, or an authorised SKF dealer for this
particular size, or find a bearing dealer who has original - old - RHP
stock. (rare as most of the colourful old boys in this game sold out
to the big boys and retired in Spain)
You will probably pay an arm and a leg for it....and so you
should....considering you want an odd sod..
Alternatives will be "fake stamped SKF" at really good price ;-), good
bad and ugly India origin - fake SKF/RHP or real Indian brand
or middle of the road Chinese - fake SKF or original Chinese.
If anyone says it is "NEUTRAL" brand, it means it is Chinese or Indian
- regardless of what bullcrap they say about origin.
NACHI has discontinued this size now to the best of my knowledge.
TIMKEN dont make it. We "ARC" have lost our agency ageements with both
these makers as they only wish to work with "BIG" bearing dealerships
who will rob you blind - guaranteed ;-)....Not a problem for us....we
are making better margins on the Chinese we sell. Quality I am happy
with.
By the way, TIMKEN is now also made in Turkey (supposedly) and in
China, to meet world demands,....produced by the same factories that
TIMKEN sued (sorry tried to sue) in yester years!!
Finally, yes you are right...bearing dealers are robbing
b*****ds....no exceptions to the rule.
Good Luck, Ketan at ARC.
Maybe ask these guys http://www.orinocobearings.co.uk/ . I've not dealt
with them yet but I've heard of various people who have and been happy.
I know of them as they can supply bearings to the original RHP or
Ransome & Marles specs for the MG Midget, AH Sprite, and IIRC Morris
Minor front stub axles.
Thanks to everyone for their input - especially Ketan's inside track.
I've used Bearingboys and Simplybearings many times in the past. I'll
have a word with then and see what they say
Thanks
Charles
Well after some searching I found that nobody held stock. I had a
local bearing supplier in tell me that they only supplied "no-brand
bearings" and that they weren't any different.No really my view.
After chasing a few good avenues (Seager in Birmingham and Spire
bearings in Chesterfield) I found that Eriks (what was Wyko) had them
in stock and had the best prices for RHP, English made bearings. Still
£95 of my cash but I expected that much.
Charles
You must have made them a good profit as I enquired about some Contitech
poly V belts with Eriks or Wyko and got fobbed off 3 times about them
getting back to me, never heard a word, maybe Bristol was a rogue
branch. I got back in touch with Contitech and asked for an alternative
supplier and they gave me Stewart Vaughan who were most helpful, had the
items in stock and shipped them on receipt of the order before the
cheque would have cleared.
Hopefully your RHP bearings work out OK. It will be interesting to see
how they're marked as RHP is now a brand with ANR
http://www.ahrinternational.com /
David
As far as I'm aware RHP are still owned and manufactured by NSK. The
fact that ANR sell them surely won't affect the quality - they're sold
by a number of distributors. They're marked RHP and say "Made in
England".
Charles
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