[budfish]

Originally Posted by andy110m

Sorry Bud but that sounds like a load of tosh. I'd love to know how a "quality supplier" must be a distributor, probably an unauthorised source could check the ABEC rating of a bearing. They'd need a hell of a lot more than a decent pair of verniers to check them. To do that they'd have to send it to one of maybe 5 or 6 places in the UK.

Those 5 being SKF, NSK, Revolvo, Cooper (although they could do it they wouldn't do it to a miniature as they only make Roller bearings, still lets be fair, they could), Timken or HB bearings.

Really if people want to get decent cheap miniatures, they can try loads of places. I'd start with a companys listed below. They take debit cards.

http://www.smbbearings.com/Framesets...FYILtAodVVkJtA

http://www.ball-bearings.biz/zen/uk/index-frame.htm

My cousin works for nsk in middlesboro