Bearings Types and Uses

Tex Star Bearings, LLC, has an extensive warehouse based in Texas. As a leading distributor, Tex Star Bearings offers a variety of products, including bearings, that meet the needs of the company’s wide range of customers.

A bearing allows movement that is either linear or rotating. Mainstays of industry and essential moving parts in the devices people use every day, bearings look like wheels, helping objects to roll. When friction causes stress, it slows the movement of the objects, making the force less powerful and less efficient.

Bearings make movements less stressed, decreasing the friction that can occur between surfaces that are moving against each other. Like skiing versus rollerblading, different surfaces involve different levels of friction. Bearings enable surfaces to roll instead of slide, allowing for greater speed.

There are many kinds of bearings, including spherical roller bearings, taper roller bearings, ball bearings, cylindrical bearings, angular contact bearings, and cartridge bearings. Each of these has a specific design that makes it work best in particular settings.