Bearing Selection from Toolbox

[MysteriousDrX]

Does anyone know if there is a way to be able to choose bearings by OD, Bore & Thickness instead of by what the toolbox refers to as Size?

I'm currently creating models & manufacturing drawings of pre-existing products so the dimensions are the information I have. The bearing I needed today was OD 52mm, Bore 25mm, thickness 15mm & has S6205RS written on it (which also isn't very helpful). Apparently this is 225, which I'm supposed to be able to not only guess at but also find in a list of 2500 different bearings?

Perhaps I'm using bearings from the wrong standard, but even if the number written on the bearing was in the list I'd still have the problem of finding it amongst so many others.

Currently I'm using an excel spreadsheet exported from toolbox to find the right bearing and whilst this works, it's not exactly an efficient method and I wonder if I'm just missing something.

Hoping that one of you is ahead of me on this.

 

[Jboggs]

Why are you limiting yourself to those bearings that happen to be in the SW toolbox? The original builders purchased those bearings from a manufacturer. I would think that same manufacturer has downloadable models available. (Or at least 2D drawings from which you could create models.)

By the way, S6205RS is a recognized standard bearing number. Any standard bearing mfr. can help you. It includes specifications for lots more than just external dimensions. It tells you what type of bearing it is (ball, roller, plane, etc.), what kind of seals if any, etc.

 

[MysteriousDrX]

In most cases I do go to the manufacturer for correct models & yes, I am aware that S6205RS is a genuine bearing number. (You don't know what standard that would be part of do you? Haven't found that information either.)

These bearings however are definitely purchased from an unspecified Chinese manufacturer (purchased through a middle man who, when I asked, told me he had no idea who the manufacturer was. Personally I think that's unacceptable, but I don't make the decisions on who we buy what from & I can only express that opinion & have it ignored so many times) so I can't go to the specific manufacturer who made these bearings.

Because I'm working through a pre-existing catalog of products I don't know the bearings required until I get there (I'd love to be able to go to someone here and get a complete list of every bearing we use & only those, but that's not possible. This is one of the things I'm here to solve, BoMs) so I'd have 2 choices, download a bearing manufacturers entire catalog or request them bearing by bearing as required.

I am using the toolbox bearings because I can't just clutter up the server with hundreds of bearing files, there isn't the space (I know, I've been complaining about that too) so I need one file with many configurations generatable, but not necessarily generated (obviously toolbox is perfect for this) & going to any specific manufacturer for individual bearings still leaves me in the position of searching for something on a website or waiting over a day for someone to reply to an email which is more time consuming than my current system & therefore unfortunately not an improvement.

I appreciate your suggestion, but unfortunately it isn't a solution to the issue.

It's clearly a bit niche, but I'm after the answer to my specific question rather than a work around. It's starting to look like nobody has the answer though.

 

[Jboggs]

" I need one file with many configurations"
There's your solution. You already know all the required parameters, right? Can you just make the basic configurable bearing file yourself?

"purchased from an unspecified Chinese manufacturer"
Ugh. Double ugh. Do the people that make these decisions ever wonder what they will say when these bearings fail and they're defending themselves from the personal injury lawsuits in court? "Gee, I don't really know where these bearings came from. The guy told me they were certified. And I believed him." Might as well be buying from a street vendor.

 

[MysteriousDrX]

"There's your solution."
Yeah, I was just hoping I wasn't going to have to do it myself. Too optimistic a thought perhaps.

"Ugh. Double ugh. Do the people that make these decisions ever wonder what they will say when these bearings fail and they're defending themselves from the personal injury lawsuits in court?"
You'd think they would wouldn't you, but apparently not. Some people just wait to be burned then scrabble around trying to solve a problem that they should never have had in the first place.