Reply #9: I went to Allied Bearings yesterday to pick up a few bearings I needed [View All]

[karlrschneider]

to rebuild a spindle...have used Timken for 30+ years. They didn't have the Timken ones I needed
and said probably they wouldn't be able to get any more but they did have some equivalent ones
in stock made in Turkey. (Bearings are a kind of odd commodity, their 'part numbers' are the same
no matter who makes them - they are one of the few products that actually have worldwide standard
naming conventions)

So I settled for the Turkish ones - (I had no idea the Turks even made stuff like this)...they
appear to be of equal quality and were half the price I generally pay for the domestic ones.

Just another example of how the USA is going down the industrial toilet, I guess. :eyes: