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Ways To Avoid Damage When Heating Bearings to reduce your operating costs
The way you mount your bearings and sprockets is essential to the performance of your equipment. When it comes to bearings alone, 17% of damage is due to poor mounting. As such, this process plays a critical role and deserves special care and attention.
Hot mounting allows, by heating up a part of revolution, to expand the bearing's inner ring or a sprocket’s bore, so that it can effortlessly be fitted onto the shaft.
Avoid the pitfalls, important: parts must never be heated with a blowtorch. Heating a part too quickly and aggressively can alter the material's properties and thereby significantly reduce its service life.
