Originally Posted by
Brian Holcombe
I would imagine most of those efforts are driven toward things that require common replacement like bike wheel bearings. So there may be some overlap.
I buy most bearings from McMaster, especially small bearings. That said, I’ll shop around for larger stuff, so for big bearings if I find a seller with a small quantity of obvious NOS bearings (rather than a listing of qty 30 or something) then I personally feel comfortable buying them.
There are a lot of people who sell on there that buy out inventory and re-sell it.
I would avoid name brand stuff, brand new, coming from China.