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2nd July 2015, 12:28 AM #1
A specialist bearing shop in Anatapur, India
After frequenting a few bearing suppliers in Australia, my eye caught the equivalent in the rural town of Anantapur. A regional centre of about 150,000 people.
The owner was very proud of it and delighted I wanted a photo.
IMAG2287.jpgCheers,
Joe
9"thicknesser/planer, 12" bench saw, 2Hp Dusty, 5/8" Drill press, 10" Makita drop saw, 2Hp Makita outer, the usual power tools and carpentry hand tools...
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2nd July 2015, 03:19 AM #2
If he hasn't got it, you can't get it at all There must be a few thousand bearings in there !
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BaronJ.
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2nd July 2015, 08:58 AM #3SENIOR MEMBER
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Geez theres some weight on that set of shelves.
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2nd July 2015, 01:06 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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Thanks for showing some of the pics from your trip Joe.
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Kryn
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2nd July 2015, 03:26 PM #5
The shop was about the depth of a single car garage. All of it was full of shelves stackd this high. I'd say many tons of steel.
Some of the bearings were even 'pre-rusted' to match the machinery they would be going into. You can't get that service in Australia
I've also never seen replacement taper roller bearing cages for sale before.... I guess if the lack of funds is great enough, you need to replace cages and reuse the rollers and cones.....Cheers,
Joe
9"thicknesser/planer, 12" bench saw, 2Hp Dusty, 5/8" Drill press, 10" Makita drop saw, 2Hp Makita outer, the usual power tools and carpentry hand tools...
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2nd July 2015, 04:19 PM #6Pink 10EE owner
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They are probably second hand bearings, and they probably reuse them as for them new bearings are horrendously expensive...
Light red, the colour of choice for the discerning man.
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3rd July 2015, 05:44 PM #7Tool addict
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Depending on the condition of them, he's got a few dollars (if he was in Australia) worth of drill bits by his feet. I don't remember the specifics, but the drill rigs I worked on saw their its costing around the $2k mark, and the hammer (between the four bits) was around $4~6k. His retirement fund and he doesn't even know it
Either way, that's a bloody impressive amount of bearings!
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29th July 2015, 06:33 PM #8Pink 10EE owner
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Makes me wonder about India... I am trying to source some engine Valves and other head parts over there for a Ruston engine they made and still make in India...
Three suppliers, not one bothered to reply.. The parts are not available in Australia.. Compare that to China where they are only too happy to sell you things...Light red, the colour of choice for the discerning man.
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29th July 2015, 07:05 PM #9
That is one of the frustrating things about India.... It is not in their nature to say something like "I'm sorry we can't help you". Instead they just don't reply..... The other thing is the language issue. A surprisingly small number of indians speak English. There are 13 official languages - and they are not necessarily related to each other. So people 200km from each other can't understand a word of each other. Websites and official publications are almost always outsourced to 'specialist' English speakers. So when you contact the firm in English, there may not be anyone there who can read it.
I'm often involved with officials and government ag4ncies these days and I find the same problems even there.
Can you give me some details by PM, Richard, and I'll ask one of my friends there to see if they can make contact for you or even source the parts.Cheers,
Joe
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29th July 2015, 08:56 PM #10SENIOR MEMBER
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They're not the only ones. If you ever hear the phrase "I'll try my very best to <insert subject>..." from a Javanese or pretty much anyone from Hong Kong, the Australian translation is "In your dreams, sunshine"....
When I flew out of Jakarta for the last time, I almost kissed the deck of the QANTAS plane - and swore that it would *be* the last time. Nice people, great place to visit, but I don't have the right temperament.......
PDW
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30th July 2015, 11:00 AM #11.
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Ever tried to get a Japanese to just say "No" or "No thanks"?
In the early 90's I was a visiting researcher for nearly 5 months at a University in Tokyo.
At one point there was a social gathering for all the visiting researchers and some Japanese staff and graduate students and you had to bring some food cooked to a recipe from your home country. I had no time and few ingredients or facilities to prepare anything obviously Australian but I had brought with me from Australia a large jar of Vegemite. So I bought some crackers and lightly smeared some vegemite onto them and put these on a plate.
At the party you were expected to walk around offering your food to others and describing what it was. The first person I offered it to was a student who took a cracker, bit into it, grimaced and carefully covering their mouth with a serviette spat it out and then smiled and said "Sank you".
Apart from my host, who had been to Australia several times and knew what Vegemite was and ate a couple of the crackers front of the others and pretended it was a bracing "tough man" thing to eat, no one took any. But when offered none of them said "No" or "No thanks".
At one point my Host (who thought it was great that I had brought the vegemite along) shoved the plate of crackers under a senior professor's nose and dared him to try it. Even he did not say no, but said something like "I and too full to eat any more"
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31st July 2015, 07:20 PM #12Novice
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I find the opposite generally, I am a Hindi speaker and have found that in the northern states even those who normally speak a dialect have no problem understanding me and only a few times have been somewhere ( Almora) where english wasn't readily understood. The southern states often won't speak Hindi on principal but had no problem with Hinglish.
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