Product Overview: The GE 70 Radial Spherical Plain Bearing
The GE 70 is a high-performance radial spherical plain bearing, engineered to manage heavy radial loads and accommodate significant angular misalignment. With a 70mm bore diameter, 105mm outer diameter, and 49mm width, this bearing is a robust solution for demanding applications where oscillating movements and potential shaft-to-housing misalignments are common. As part of our Radial Spherical Bearings collection, the GE 70 features a steel-on-steel sliding contact surface, making it exceptionally durable and suitable for harsh operating conditions. Its design is crucial for preventing edge stresses and ensuring reliable performance in heavy-duty machinery.
Key Features of the GE 70 Bearing
- Misalignment Compensation: The spherical design allows for angular misalignment between the shaft and housing, reducing stress on the assembly.
- High Load Capacity: Engineered to support heavy static and dynamic radial loads, as well as combined radial and axial loads.
- Durable Construction: Manufactured with hardened, ground steel for both the inner and outer rings, ensuring excellent wear resistance and a long service life.
- Steel-on-Steel Surface: Ideal for applications with heavy, alternating loads and shock loads where maintenance is possible.
- Maintenance-Friendly Design: Typically features lubrication grooves and holes in the rings to facilitate relubrication, which is essential for extending bearing life.
- Wide Operating Temperature Range: Capable of performing reliably across a broad spectrum of temperatures found in industrial environments.
Common Applications
- Construction Machinery: Used in pivot points and linkages for excavators, loaders, bulldozers, and cranes.
- Hydraulic Cylinders: Commonly found at the mounting ends of hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders to accommodate pivoting movements.
- Agricultural Equipment: Essential for linkage points in tractors, harvesters, and other heavy farming machinery.
- Mining and Quarrying Equipment: Provides robust support in crushers, conveyors, and drilling rigs that operate under extreme loads.
- Heavy-Duty Vehicles: Applied in suspension systems, steering linkages, and chassis connections for trucks and off-road vehicles.
- Industrial Robotics: Ensures smooth, reliable movement in the joints and arms of heavy-payload robots.
- Bridge and Structural Engineering: Used in structural supports and expansion joints to allow for thermal movement and settling.
Benefits of Using the GE 70 Bearing
- Enhanced Machine Reliability: By accommodating misalignment, it prevents premature failure of shafts and connected components.
- Extended Service Life: The robust steel-on-steel construction and potential for relubrication lead to a longer operational lifespan, even under severe conditions.
- Reduced Maintenance Costs: Its durability minimizes the frequency of replacements and downtime, lowering overall operational expenses.
- Improved Performance under Load: Maintains smooth operation without binding when subjected to heavy loads and slight misalignments.
- Simplified Assembly: The self-aligning capability can simplify the design and assembly of machinery where precise alignment is difficult to achieve.
- Versatile and Adaptable: Suitable for a wide range of static and dynamic applications requiring robust pivoting and rotational freedom.
