At 02:16 PM 8/28/2006, David Lieb wrote:
>>Don't buy into the tapered bearing mythology. A very good argument
>>can be made as to why angular contact ball bearings are better,
>>beyond the fact they are original.
>
> I know that some people try to compromise and use the spacer with
> the tapered bearings; this has no chance of working correctly and
> amounts to a time bomb waiting to go off. Properly done, Timken
> tapered bearings are more than up to the job at hand.
>David Lieb
==
"Properly done." is the key. As well as quality. There are good and
not so good brands of both styles of bearings. I was trying to
suggest that tapered bearings in and of themselves are not
necessarily superior. I am disappointed in the "usual suspects' "
bearing kits.
Peter C.
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