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Glencoyne have issued the following safety alert re' Bearmach Swivel Balls

>>Product safety alert - Bearmach swivel balls
These photos are of a chrome swivel ball on a Series III which failed during a greenlaning trip last week. The swivel ball had been fitted in July 2021, and the vehicle's owner is not aware of having hit any solid objects or deep potholes.
I'm no metallurgist but it looks to me as though there are quite a few imperfections in the casting, little brown grains of something. I have no idea whether this is a one-off or whether there are other defective castings out there.
The swivel ball in question has "Bearmach" and "01/21" (presumably the manufacturing date) on the edge of the flange. As Bearmach no longer exists, there isn't much that I can do other than post this information and ask people to share it. Hopefully there will not be too many of these swivel balls out there: if you have a couple on the shelf and haven't yet got round to fitting them, my advice would be to use them as paperweights.<<


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Think mine were Britpart which had a fair reputation, wonder whether the brown bits is rust they seem to be opposite areas and perhaps they cracked first, does look poor quality with one part fine grained and other side containing porosity, might be worth checking for hairline cracks
 
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Glencoyne have issued the following safety alert re' Bearmach Swivel Balls

>>Product safety alert - Bearmach swivel balls
These photos are of a chrome swivel ball on a Series III which failed during a greenlaning trip last week. The swivel ball had been fitted in July 2021, and the vehicle's owner is not
Just crap cheap componants cheap materials poorly built.
Allmakes, terrabagosheite, bearmarc are all the same total gargbage.
Surprisingly Britpart swivels are very good actually.


I cut one of my old ones to make a Jig when i replaced myne. Made rebuilding them so much easier.
It was a mission to cut through the gen LR one with a large grinder very tough.

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Glencoyne have issued the following safety alert re' Bearmach Swivel Balls

>>Product safety alert - Bearmach swivel balls
These photos are of a chrome swivel ball on a Series III which failed during a greenlaning trip last week. The swivel ball had been fitted in July 2021, and the vehicle's owner is not aware of having hit any solid objects or deep potholes.
I'm no metallurgist but it looks to me as though there are quite a few imperfections in the casting, little brown grains of something. I have no idea whether this is a one-off or whether there are other defective castings out there.
The swivel ball in question has "Bearmach" and "01/21" (presumably the manufacturing date) on the edge of the flange. As Bearmach no longer exists, there isn't much that I can do other than post this information and ask people to share it. Hopefully there will not be too many of these swivel balls out there: if you have a couple on the shelf and haven't yet got round to fitting them, my advice would be to use them as paperweights.<<


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That could have had nasty consequences.
I'm surprised it survived the manufacturing machining processes.
 
I heard that the military reduced the duty on all of their LRs fitted with aftermarket swivels.
 
Nasty. I think Bearmach were a wholesaler, so the part would have been made by someone else.
Wonder if that firm sold them to anyone else?
 

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