Plastic ball bearings

Designed to work in applications where steel ball bearings fail, the xiros plastic ball bearings from igus are dry running, single row, deep grooved ball bearings made to DIN 625 standard dimensions.

A xiros ball bearing consists of four components; the outer race, inner race, cage and balls. The first two components and the cage are made of specially formulated tribological plastics with chemical and temperature resistance that maximise service life and minimise the coefficient of friction.

The balls can be stainless steel, glass or plastic, providing the opportunity to choose a solution based on weight, load capacity, noise reduction, etc.

A short video presenting an experiment to compare the corrosion resistance of a steel vs. a pastic ball bearing can be viewed at: www.igus.co.uk/videos/ bearingsplasticVssteel