Thread: Makita Bearings

I had a saw that I brought from the UK and there were no agents for it in NZ. I took the bearings to a car parts shop similar to Repco and they measured and supplied the correct bearings for a very reasonable price. The saw (Delta) is still going great.

Just did a quick search and found this place http://www.minibearings.com.au/distributors/vic/ Im sure that you will find other places that sell bearings your after.

I would replace all 3 bearings.

Seeing that you have the machine apart, you should be able to pull the bearings out or at least read the part number on them of which is a universal number regardless of brand and it'd pay for you to visit your local wholesale bearing supplier where you can expect to pay about a 1/3rd of the cost if you were to source them from a Licensed Makita shop or tool repair joint.

From a bearing wholesaler, I'd expect to pay about $5 to $10 each depending on size of bearings or from a Makita or tool joint $20 to $50 each depending on how generous they are

Beware of the cheap chinese bearings, spend the extra & get the japanese bearings there is a significant difference.

We had a supplier give us the talk up that there was no difference just price $1 on average, after tests with some tools we found them to be to high a risk. If a bearing fails 7 you have to replace under warranty the labour outways the price of the bearings, customers are happy to pay $10-$20 for quality bearings we have found over the past 20years....if we were charging $20-50 I wouldnt be able to sleep at night...on thhe other hand i spose i would have plenty of money to entertain myself

Thanks for all the advice,

I will try and get to a bearing shop in the next few weeks. The bearings on it at the moment are NSK and state they are made in japan and a part number.

Is this the type of bearing puller i'll need, i've got a 3 jaw at the moment but dont think there is enough space to use it.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/2-1-4-CAPACIT...3A1%7C294%3A50

Also when it comes to putting the new bearings back on are they pressed or can you use a soft faced hammer?

Thanks

If the bearings arn't sealed , ie a cover on both sides covering the balls , put them in the onev at 180 deg for 20 minutes , have everything ready clean shaft etc, using gloves take the bearing out of the oven and slide it on, the heating will expand the bearing so its an easy slide on
Better not to use a soft or copper hammer to tap bearings on as flakes can come off the face and get into the bearing , if you have to tap one on use a small pin punch and tap the center ring down the shaft being carefull not to mark the shaft , two people doing this from either side working together is best or use a piece op pipe that just fits over the shaft and sits on the inner ring of the bearing to tap it home,