Schaeffler (UK) has successfully completed the replacement of two, six-tonne main pipe reel bearings on one of Technip’s longest-serving pipelay vessels, the Apache. The replacement required Schaeffler engineers to remove the two existing reel bearings from the port and starboard sides of the main reel, and then replace these with two new bearings, mounted in the existing 20-tonne pedestal housings. The replacement spherical roller bearings were supplied preloaded into the pedestal housings. The bearings have a s...
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Summer of 1967. A Charni Road flat. Mrs. Sheela Mane, a 28-year-old housewife is out in the balcony drying clothes. From her second floor flat she can see her neighbours on the road. There are other people too. The crowd seems to be growing larger by the minute. Unable to curb her curiosity Sheela Mane hurries down to see what all the commotion is about. She expects the worst but can see no signs of an accident. It is her four-year-old who draws her attention to the hoarding that has come up overnight. "It was the ...
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Mercedes Benz has Spyraflo keeping a lid on things  Daimler Chrysler, manufacturer of the Mercedes Benz Maybach, needed something special for the centre console lid of the vehicles where compactness and quality was the design criteria. The solution from Spyraflo was to supply self-clinching/self-aligning Delrin bearings. Through its German distributor, Spyraflo is providing FSD-2M bearings for installation in the vehicle's centre console. The 2mm bearings are securely installed into the sheet-steel frame that form...
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