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Looks like you are worrying about bearings too much, the memory is going or nothing better to post. You posted this just recently: I am replacing the bearings on my flail mower blade drum. It is a standard flange self aligning type bearing. I found the same bearing on EBAY, but it is made by a company called JIB made in China. Any one had any dealings with this bearing co.? I don't think many bearings are made in the US anymore. The price is about 1/3 the price from the local bearing supplier.Stan You got 7 replies. I would have thought we had heard enough about cheap inferior parts on this thread. Or didn't you read your previous post? Cheap American bearings were probably inferior as well. I have never bought a cheap inferior Japanese bearing (not knowingly, anyhow). I have only been buying bearings for about 40 years, so maybe a generation behind you but all the bearings in my 1960's Honda motorcycles held up good and replacements of the right specification were certainly not cheap. The Chinese do have quality control figured out. They will improve only when they have to. It puts extra costs on the product to test it and build to a better quality product. Why change if they don't have to? EVERYTHING that is imported comes from somewhere else or everything that you buy which has been made somewhere else is IMPORTED. It is now the way of the world. Quality and price are two main factors. Too many use price as most important parameter. China makes good quality too. It also floods the market with the low quality junk that imorters elsewhere buy 'cos it gives a good turn-over and fast profit. 'Cos too many people think cheap price is better than high quality. Or maybe the masses are unable to read/understand the specifications. Whatever it might be, they are there waiting for people to buy. Everyone knows it is cheap labour behind the China boom yet they fit low quality bearings in the US with high labour fitting charges and then fit them again when they fail. They are then very expensive bearings. It is not just the cost of the bearing, but all the things like other damaged parts, labour charges, down-time, hiring in charges, lost work, crops or other incidentals. Like I said previously. Your call. Your choice. Please don't post the same again. Let's hear of the cheap bearing failures that can be attributed to poor quality. That way other people will have something to go on when they decide to buy new bearings.
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