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One of the great things about Smith Machine and Tool, LLC. is our ability to stock standard mil-spec tools year-round. This allows customers to select from a wide range of drill press or arbor press tools and corresponding portable versions. We provide impressive lead times, superior quality, extensive end-user knowledge, and world-class customer service. For …

Customized MS14101-12 and MS14101-14 ToolKit for a Learjet Plane Read More »

Bell. Sikorsky. Agusta. Westland SPA. These are all helicopters that require bearing roller swaging tools, bearing cutting tools, as well as bearing install, removal and proof-load tools for bearing replacements on the aircraft’s airframe. The ADBY6V bearing has several crossover bearing numbers; 70305-22800-101, KSYB5-20CRXD3, and 206-033-509. While these high misalignment bearings are common, they require …

Bell Helicopter Model 214B: ADBY6V Bearing Repair Read More »

Why are tooling kits useful? They provide technicians with all the tools necessary to complete a repair, whether it is for an AOG or MRO. Smith Machine and Tool manufactures bearing staking tools and creates toolkits for standard and custom tooling. Our SMT Pro Kits can come in standard MS bearing sizes, custom bearing sizes, …

MS14101-4 Custom Repair Kit Read More »

Enhance Efficiency with the P-BAC-ADBY7V Proof-Load Tool At Smith Machine and Tool, LLC., we manufacture portable install, removal, and proof-load tools for all standard MS bearings. See table below. We also make custom tooling options for proof-loading in order to test a plethora of bearings. A customer recently received a high mis-alignment ADBY7V bearing specifi …

Recent Portable Proof-Load Tool (P-BAC-ADBY7V) Read More »

Smith Machine and Tool is the global leader in manufacturing bearing staking tooling. While we manufacture standard bearing tooling, custom tooling is our specialty. We’re excited to highlight a recently completed custom project of a tool kit to repair a large landing gear bearing. A customer needed a custom tool set for a very large …

Custom Tool Set Read More »