<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I’ve used self aligning (spherical roller) bearings in some cases too… you can use smaller housings that way, and the ratings are significantly higher than using ball races. <div>Matthew<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 26 Feb 2022, at 08:56, Nigel Taylor <nigelsdtaylor@outlook.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<div dir="auto">I am not sure the difference is clear. I have often seen references to bells 'hung on roller bearings' when clearly they are not. Bob Parker used rollers, and Whitechapel used them sometimes for large, swinging bells. </div>
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<div>Just wondering if the distinction between roller bearing and ball bearings is clear. Roller bearings seems to be common parlance for anything that isn’t a plain bearing.
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<p class="x_yiv3123134652MsoNormal"><span style="">An 1896 newspaper article about the installation of a G&J chime with swinging tenor bell (<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers.com%2Fclip%2F96404646&data=04%7C01%7C%7C35c3840a99a14e97ab9008d9f89433e6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637814137688734916%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=zDljv%2BPMDW9NCy%2BxOBfO1yqfZXe0Hgv0XHjaX6lwLDU%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96404646" shash="XDyF5pKfJZvo7quUWzZPP56GP43/a2/U5fsT52/mwmpRVPwcQH/Qn6WD2ZoQkcn2n0NTrw5QNOm1fEbrH7UzbNFxbIsrOFqsCrfFQRcZzHZIbHMd0bG7+eGuSlaazoBY6KbweTAmhC2mQyGKOHcZ/xbIkKyrH/c93f9QMkLtJXI=">https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96404646</a>)
makes the claim that this is "the first time the roller principle has been introduced into bell hanging." Is that claim correct? If not, when and where were roller bearings first used?</span></p>
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