The flourishing of the fake
bearing products causes too much concern and problem for every businesses and
engineers as well. Everyone in the
bearing business is alarmed with this disturbing problem because a lot of news
of counterfeit bearing products is distributed around the market. Some engineers even experienced getting bogus
bearings that has very poor quality and did not even last for an hour after
fitting it into the machines.|
What makes this too alarming is that counterfeiters are very good in
reproducing original packaging and markings of the top bearing suppliers and
one who is not professional in bearings may find it difficult to
distinguished the fake bearings to the original bearings. Counterfeiting
practices of bearings can be done by producing the exact copies of the
legitimate brand imprints and markings of the famous bearing manufacturers
and using second hand or used bearings that are re-conditioned so it will
look good as new. Other practices may
include grounding or polishing the bearings to remove the pit marks and rust
of the grease stains and oil.
Some even simply remarked the bearing tolerances since the ordinary
bearings are usually marked as P4, P5, and P6 class and others even altered
clearance like the C3 clearance which is remade as a plain bearing or a plain
bearing to C3 bearings. You will be surprised that the lists go on
and on when it comes to producing counterfeit bearings. It is very alarming to note that
counterfeiters can target any types of bearings.
The fake may enter the market with the used bearings from the automotive
back street and after market applications, wherein those who are less
sophisticated and professional users are unable to determine that they are
already fooled by scams.
OEM Bearings with wider lead times
 Even the bogus bearings are
getting better over the years; it even entered the precision bearing or OEM
market where it usually suffered an extensive lead time. Counterfeiters are able to produce copies
that can run down from the industrial mill products which can often be sold
mixed in with the originals. Fake
bearings which don’t meet the technical specification are always expected to
have low quality and may fail quickly in delivering good performance.
Spurious bearings create more
economical loss and problems that may result to serious implications particularly
on the critical safety applications.
Worst, it may even ruin the reputation of your business.
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