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Default bearings: different grades & qualities

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(Tom) saying something like:


I can tell you from some time I spent directly involved in making the
things that Toyo were the most exacting specs.


Not sure where you got that info. DuPont did a study on bearing
quality and Toyo (Koyo?)) wasn't even considered. NTN had the highest
quality rating and as a result, DuPont corporate policy is to use NTN
only.


If that works for them, fine. Toyo are outstanding, imo and experience.

Looking NTN up, as I hadn't come across them, it seems that Toyo and NTN
are very closely tied up anyway.

http://www.ntn.ca/corporate_history.htm
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Dave