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Originally Posted by Zulfiqar
I ordered a set of bearings from Amazon to keep as spare parts, and they are Made in USA Timken items. On others experience I came to know they are very high quality.
The absolute worst bearings Ive experienced were some chinese origin bearings (cant remember the name) but they only lasted a few weeks on an old toyota cressida front hub.
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See Post #8 "...Replaced with Timken boxed Chinese..."
I know Timken has USA made Bearings but you need to make sure you get the USA ones. Timken also sells lower grade Bearings as shown in Post #8.
I under stand that it is one way to compete with the generic China made Bearings but it kind of degrads Timken name.
I have a bunch of US made Black&Decker Hole Saws. I needed a size I did not have and the New Black&decker Hole Saw was made in China (and costs more than the Generic China Hole saws). That China Black&Decker Hole Saw would not fit the US made Hole saw Mandrel.
Apparently Black&Decker did what a lot of US Companies are doing and put their name on the China Products without any regard to quality controls, compatability or design and count on the fact that you will not be able or want to bother to claim a warranty on the Product.