[Bell Historians] Ball races

[Bickerton, Roderic (SELEX GALILEO, UK)]

I doubt that is a good idea, the actual cost of the bearing races is small, they come in the £5 to £25 range.
If you consider the whole pillow block, standard ones add about 50% but obviously specials could be much more.
I buy mine from Luton SKF
On line catalogue:
http://www.skf.com/portal/skf/home/products?newlink=first&lang=en.
 
Perhaps a better approach would be to get a cost for all the work to purchase and fit each bearing, and use that as the basis for the sponsorship.
 
I got an estimate, 5 year's ago to just have the races replaced at Watford, average £130 a bell.
Its costing me about £25 a bell to do it myself.
If the cost of engineering the gudgeons to take a ball race and the cost of manufacturing and fitting frame bearing plates had to be added, that could be multiplied by 5 to 10.
 
 
 

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Sent: 21 June 2010 11:32
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Subject: [Bell Historians] Ball races


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We are trying to raise money to rehang the ring of 10 at Beccles, Suffolk, on ball bearings. One of the things suggested for raising money was "Buy a Bearing". Could somebody either give me an indication or point me in the right direction for finding out the price of ball races used for such a job. The bells range in weight between 6cwt and 25cwt. Obviously the cases and labour will add more expense but I would just like to know the basic price of one bearing.

JBP




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