Bronze plain bearing
Glycodur® Series Federal-Mogul Deva

GLYCODUR A slide bearings have a copper-plated steel backing and a 0.2 to 0.4 mm thick, sintered-on layer of tin bronze. The key feature of these bearings is the coating polyoxymethylene (POM) layer with its relative thickness of 0.3 mm with lubrication recesses for lubricating grease.

GLYCODUR A slide bearings are therefore insensitive to misalignment and associated edge loading to a certain extent.

The GLYCODUR AB slide bearings correspond to GLYCODUR A slide bearings by design, however their POM coating layer is 0.35 mm thick. This allows subsequent machining of the slide surface by drilling or turning already fitted bushes - also by reaming in special cases. This allows to eliminate misalignments or obtain a reduced bearing clearance.

GLYCODUR F slide bearings have a copper-plated steel backing and a porous 0.2 to 0.4 mm thick, sintered-on layer of tin bronze. In the rolling process, the pores of this layer are filled with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) mixed with friction and wear-reducing additives. A 5 to 30 µm thick coating layer from the same material forms the running-in layer.