Help me indentify this bearing please

[rryan]

One of the wheels on my drive gate had a bearing go out--


it is a metal tube with a hole in the middle that the bolt "axle" goes through---sourrounded by round metal rods (instead of ball bearings) and another metal tube packed iwth grease.

Anyone kwno what the actual techincal name for this type of bearing is? I have to find another one in a hurry.

 

[Oregon Dave]

Thats called a needle bearing.
Best Regards
Dave

 

[vlad]

maybe it is called roller bearing

 

[WFK]

If it's big enough: a roller bearing.

edit: dupe should increase confidence!

 

[rryan]

Thanks--it turned out to be soem odd variation of a needle bearing, which of course Grainger or no one else seems to have---fortunately the guy in line in front of me at grainger repairs gates for a living and had an extra one in his van he sold me.

 

[Brutus]

rryan,

What you have there is a roller bearing (often called a 'needle' bearing because in most varieties of them the rollers are very, very small in diameter, hence 'needle') with an 'inner race'.

To locate bearings, the best bet is to go to a "bearing house", which is the term for supply companies who sell mostly bearings and seals. There used to be a whole bunch of them - American Bearings, Dixie Bearings, Bearings of America, etc. - but most of them merged, went out of business, etc. A big one around here - Mississippi - is Applied Industrial Technologies, which bought out the old company of Dixie Bearings here in the South.

Bearing houses are usually much, much cheaper than Grainger, also.