Talk:Thrust bearing

Request for improvement
While the article is very helpful, I wonder if some expert on the subject (I am not) would care to make it clear which parts of which bearings are in contact with what other parts. The diagrams do not make this clear. In my imagination, a thrust bearing connects a shaft to a fixed support. I am not sure if the shaft (usually? always? never?) goes all the way through the middle of the bearing, and whether the fixed support somehow connects to the outside (the outside circle? the faces of the two plates?) of the bearing, or if not, where. Answering these questions would make the article even more useful.

If anyone here is also improving "ball bearing", a similar suggestion would apply. Is there a normal way these bearings are used?

many thanks

--Esb (talk) 01:40, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Merger of Thrust ball bearing
Thrust ball bearing is a tiny article with barely enough content for a stub.

Ignoring questions of content, the best final article structure would appear to be Thrust bearing alone, with of course a large section specifically on (thrust) ball bearings, and sections on non-ball bearings. As ball thrust bearings are the dominant form, it makes sense to place their coverage within the broad article.

Alternatively, a case could be made that the main coverage of { ball, thrust } bearings should best be placed under ball bearing. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Agree with merging thrust ball bearing into thrust bearing. There's more coverage in this article than there is in the stub. Wizard191 (talk) 19:18, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Reference link not found
The link "Why SKF Spherical roller thrust bearings" (PDF). SKF. Retrieved 17 December 2013. is not longer available. I found this document http://www.skf.com/binary/tcm:20-65604/index.html that may be used instead. Regards.AlejandroLapeyre (talk) 09:39, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for finding that. You could just put it straight into the article - anyone can edit here! Andy Dingley (talk) 10:49, 25 April 2016 (UTC)