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Old 1st Feb 2011, 10:06
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We have been into that FAG brochure before. Must admit that no one untill now has picked the fact that all of the bearings used are non off the shelf. It has to be specials seen the environment they are used.
That makes me remember a very short / brief note in the newspaper here, probably about 2 weeks after the QF 32 desaster. Schaeffler Group - the Holding that FAG belongs to - has released a note to the press that their bearings were NOT the cause of the failure!! and had performed as expected !!
With all the developements in this thread over the past weeks I now believe that this press info might have some kind of importance for the outside evaluation of the causes.
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