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How To Choose A Fishing Reel

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Choosing a fishing reel can be a confusing task with so many different types out there. This is our guide to choosing the best drag system and the right amount of ball bearings.

Will There Ever Be Such A Thing As A Truly "Green" Bearing?

With sustainability an increasing concern will we ever be able to create a truly "green" ball bearing?

The Science Experiment Which Took Off Like A Rocket - Creating Space Ball Bearings

Original thinking brought a group of students from the 80s to send their stainless ball bearing experiment up into space in the early 2000s.

5 Belt Drive Enemies To Watch Out For & How to Counteract Them

Belt drives are, for the most part, trouble free, but because of that, their maintenance is often overlooked. We’ve put together 5 Belt Drive Enemies to look out for. Keeping these five enemies at bay...

Getting your (football) bearings as a paralympian footballer.

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This article will take a brief look at blind football and how the game is adapted for blind and partially sighted players...

Bearings in Space: Curiosity Rover’s Mission to Mars

Without an assortment of high precision bearings, much of the moving equipment on the Mars rover 'Curiosity' wouldn't be possible. What roles do these parts play exactly in NASA's latest adventure to...

High Performance Composite V-Belts (HPC V-Belts) - Part 1

Fitting a new v-belt to a drive can be a nightmare for a maintenance engineer – particularly if you have to totally dismantle the drive in order to fit the belt. Firstly, you check you’ve got the right...

Bear in mind the ceramic ball bearing.

Ceramic bearings weigh less than their steel counterparts and are extremely durable. They're also chemically inert and not very sensitive to moisture, placing them as a contender against the traditional...

Ball Bearings that Keep the World Going Round

It's easy to forget just how useful the bearing is; bearing technology was invented by the ancient Egyptians and since then has permeated nearly every aspect of engineering.

Modern mining technologies

Mining has always traditionally been a dirty, intense, claustrophobic and very dangerous job to carry out and is an industry which has caused countless accidents and deaths, but over the centuries the...

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