Quote Originally Posted by Brian Holcombe View Post
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.
This may surprise you then. Gothenburg, 17 June 2020: SKF is making further investments in strengthening its manufacturing footprint in China for ball bearings. The investment is in-line with the Group's region-for-region manufacturing strategy. The Group announced a SEK 370 million investment in a new factory in Xinchang in June 2019. https://www.skf.com/us/news-and-even...-China-3696931