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Steel Balls for Ball Bearings: Headed, Ground and Lapped
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Steel Balls for Ball Bearings: Headed, Ground and Lapped

Bearing balls start as steel wire: cut into short pellets, pressed into rough spheres, rolled round between grooved plates, hardened, then ground and lapped until they are almost perfectly round and smooth.
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Works process

Amabwiriza

1

Watch: how ball bearings are made

How It's Made: ball bearings, from steel to finished balls and rings.
2

Shear and head

Shear the wire into pellets of about the ball's volume. Head each pellet into a rough sphere.

Ibikoresho by'iyi ntambwe:

Insinga y'icyuma cya kamaniInsinga y'icyuma cya kamani1 as required

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

Koleyo yo guca insinga y'ukwerekezaKoleyo yo guca insinga y'ukwerekeza
Imashini ikora imitwe idashyushyeImashini ikora imitwe idashyushye
3

Roll off the flash

Run the balls between rill plates, one fixed and one turning, with coolant pumped between them. This takes off the flash and rounds them; the pressure also hardens the surface a little.

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

Imashini isena imipira ifite amasahani y'imiyoboroImashini isena imipira ifite amasahani y'imiyoboro
Amavuta yo gukataAmavuta yo gukata
4

Harden and descale

Heat-treat the steel balls (harden and quench), then tumble off the scale.

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

Itanura ryo gutunganya hakoreshejwe ubushyuheItanura ryo gutunganya hakoreshejwe ubushyuhe
Indobo yo gukonjeshaIndobo yo gukonjesha
Ipipa ryo gukuraho amasongaIpipa ryo gukuraho amasonga
5

Grind and lap

Hard-grind them in the same kind of machine with a fine grinding wheel or abrasive in the coolant, to within about a ten-thousandth of an inch. Lap them for more precision. Check sizes with a micrometer.

Ibikoresho bikenewe:

Uruziga rwo gusyaUruziga rwo gusya
Imashini isena imipira ifite amasahani y'imiyoboroImashini isena imipira ifite amasahani y'imiyoboro
Imashini inoza imipiraImashini inoza imipira
Ifu inozaIfu inoza
MikorometeroMikorometero
6

Limits

Process from Wikipedia's Bearing ball article. Wikipedia lists chrome steel among bearing-ball steels; high-carbon spring-steel wire is our choice here.

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Ibikoresho bikenewe

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