trying to source bearings for local farmer,

He also said the bearing fits onto a 1 inch hex shaft.

This is where i get my hard to find bearings.

Seems I cannot open the sites for Shoup and NTAmerica. So I'll pass along the Baum and Motion telephone nubmers to the mechanic.

shoup doesn't carry anything with a hex bore

Edited by JimBarry - 05 Oct 2012 at 7:52am

This farmer is looking for 6 of them. He did go to a local machine shop to see about getting them made up. Apparently he can get the inner part, the bearing itself, but its securing the bearing to that outer housing, which nowadays would be a piece of steel pipe. The thin metal housing of the bearing doesn't offer much to weld too. Then there's the issue of protecting it with a rubber boot.

I found this web site as the only place that lists parts online like this bearing. I'm waiting to hear from them to see if they have what we're looking for.

Ah yes, as Steve M said, the one-of-a-kind Bal-Pak bearing.  Made of unobtanium.  May be able to find some NOS; check with Larry Swenson.  I got some from him a while back but his were with round centers versus the hex shaft.

Edited by Brian F(IL) - 05 Oct 2012 at 10:10am

NOS stands for "new, old stock". It's to describe an item that has never been used but is old and may be found "in stock" in someones old parts bin.

Try RBI bearing on line. Hate to say it but they are Chinese that is who I get my bearings from. You may need to go through a retail dealer though. They have a gigantic selection of bearings.

Gerald J. wrote: Using Baums or Shoup's on line search is a waste of effort.Baum does have HEX bore disk bearings, download section Q, look at page Q1. But not wide and not 1" bore....

nsula_country wrote: AGCO? They may have them still. CT

Rub those sales kid's noses in those part numbers. One for disks, the rest for planters and corn heads that very often use hex shafts to allow moving units to change row spacing. It might well take a pair of corn head bearings, like the ones that cross to JD numbers to handle the disk load.

Another practical alternative but not cheap would be to replace shafts, disks, and all the bearings with the more common square disk shafts. Shoup has those.

I find MORE parts in the downloaded printed catalog from Baum than I can find with their computer search because their search engine is pretty bad and you have to know ALL of its nuances and stupidities to find even common stuff. Their printed catalogs are good, plus are thick and I think complete. The sections I have downloaded search very well in Adobe Acrobat.

Shoup's search is even poorer and I won't bother to bring it up. I'll dig out a printed catalog instead and probably should go ask for the latest since I've not bought from there in a while and have moved, I don't have one for 2012. They usually issue two a year, spring has more planter parts, fall has more combine parts, both are usually pretty good in tillage parts and I find parts in the printed catalog ten times faster than in their on line trash.

I could be persuaded to sell or swap my JD disks.

Gerald J.

JD 7000 planters use a 1" hex shaft and have hex bearings in then they have differant mounting clamps than you have pictured. I loaded six of the planters for scrap last year and they had good bearings in them. I used a 1" wrench to turn the shafts so I could save the gear box for a couple other farmers. We hauled the last one in this spring didn't get squat for it but after driving around it for most of a year it was nice tohave it gone.

the bearing is ROUND the center here is a hex inner sleeve. Press the inner sleeve out, then the bearing and replace as in the 70330133. Less than $100 to put/press in 2 brgs. Save one spacer to put between the 2 new brgs add a flat washer on each side as a dirt shield. Will last years..