Wheelbarrow bearing?

[GezzaL]

Anyone know what a wheelbarrow bearing is? Is it just the bearing in the wheel of a typical wheelbarrow? Is there a picture of one?
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[coshhassessor]

Odd! Normally, there isn't a bearing, as such - the axle is thrashed through the centre of the wheel (with a bushing if you're lucky), and the axle is mounted on a pair of brackets, usually with bushings in them. Maybe that bracket and bushing is what is being referred to?

I guess a "Rolls Royce" barrow might replace said brackets with pillow blocks containing ball bearings, and even put some bearings on the wheel centre, but the "Mark I, Model A" you buy from every builders' merchants in the land lacks these refinements - or at least, all the ones I've ever had to push did!

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[GezzaL]

Thanks for your reply coshhassessor. I was trying to build a kind of swivelling gimbal thingy from a design on the net and managed eventually to contact the designer. Turns out this bearing is just a single row ball race bearing and, as you rightly suggested, nothing to do with your average wheelbarrow! Possibly an American term. Anyway I now know what to get. Cheers
G