Benefits Of Ceramic Ball Bearings

Most standard bearings may be ordered with ceramic balls in combination with 440c and 52100 steel rings.

Benefits of ceramic ball bearings.

Performance benefits of ceramic bearings high quality bearings save watts. They normally have a very high hardness 70 90. Use of ceramic silicon nitride balls in place of steel balls can radically improve bearing performance. Since these bearings are constructed from many materials they often operate in hybrid capacities.

Advantages ceramic microstructures enjoy covalent bonding inherent between non metal elements. Ceramic deals with heat better so. The number one reason why ceramic bearings work well is because silicon nitride the material that the balls are made off can be made with much more accuracy than steel. The balls can be rounder and polished to be smoother than any metal.

All the tests i have seen test new or just broken in bearings and show that one could save somewhere between 5 and 10 watts for a pulley bottom bracket and wheel bearing upgrade of course mostly depending on your current set up as a starting point. It is not hard to understand how a rounder and smoother ball will be easier to roll. Full ceramic bearings have races and balls that are made entirely of ceramic material and are superior to common steel bearings in many ways. Because ceramic balls are 60 lighter than steel balls and because their surface finish is almost perfectly smooth they exhibit vibration levels two to seven times lower than conventional metal rings metal balls ball bearings.

Full ceramic ball bearings and hybrid ceramic ball bearings. Ceramic is the perfect material for any application seeking to achieve higher rpm s reduce overall weight or for extremely harsh environments where high temperatures and corrosive substances are present. Most sealed ceramic bearings are actually hybrid ceramic bearings which combine a steel race with ceramic ball bearings. This means they share electrons.

Currently we offer ceramic hybrids utilizing 1mm to 1 4 inch ball diameters. This atomic co operation yields a very strong attraction force and because of this ceramics offer a series of benefits in comparison to metals. Ceramic bearings are comprised of ceramic rolling elements balls enclosed in a ferrous typically steel inner and outer race. We also build ceramic bearings i e bearings with ceramic races but they are not as common because they are less durable.