Split roller bearings may be a better long-term investment
It can take as little as 30 minutes to replace a split roller bearing and even less time to inspect it; whereas solid bearings routinely take many hours, and sometimes days to replace and are notoriously difficult to inspect while in place. Yet overwhelmingly solid bearings comprise the major segment of rolling bearings in use in extraction industries today. Adrian Menzies, Sales Director of Revolvo Ltd., explains why the lowest cost bearing solution for the OEM is usually the most expensive for the quarry end-user
