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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jul 24, 2001

To assist customers in make their bearings choice FTL Seals Technology has produced an informative guide to enable customers to identify which bearing will suit particular applications

FTL Seals Technology has a broad and diverse range of bearings within its comprehensive product range offering customers complete choice when choosing their bearings solution.

To assist customers in make their bearings choice FTL Seals Technology has produced an informative guide to 'Bearings Solutions'.

This will enable customers to identify which bearing will suit particular applications so that the optimum choice can be made when considering: Load, Friction, Duty and Cost.

In addition to the brochure a trained in-house engineering team is on hand to answer any queries or questions you may have.

Sealing know how teaches us that the life of a sealing element is dependent upon the integrity of the components immediately surrounding the seal.

Invariably components are being used in the sealing of a rotary or reciprocating shaft.

The shaft, must at some point, be supported by a bearing arrangement.

FTL Seals have a wide experience of bearing design, coupled with the correct seal to achieve maximum service life.

The FTL Seals bearings range includes; metal backed bushes which incorporate a sintered dynamic load bearing surface incorporating PTFE or other polymers on bronze, are available, in many standard sizes and are interchangeable with the leading brand.

* A metal impregnated graphite bearing that is widely used in the centrifugal pump industry.

* A range of rolling element bearings, modified to include an in-built high temperature solid lubricant.

This type of bearing is widely used in the steel industry and other high temperature processes.

* Sintered bronze bearings with inbuilt lubricant, which is replaced as a hydrodynamic film under rotating motion.

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