NA 48 SeriesNeedle RollerExtra-lightBore code 56ISO 1206

NA4856 Single-row Needle Roller Bearing With Machined Rings

NA4856 is a single-row needle roller bearing with machined rings, extra-light series, with a 280 mm bore, a 305 mm needle complement diameter, a 350 mm outside diameter and a 69 mm width. Those numbers — the bore, needle complement diameter, outside diameter, width and the 2 mm minimum chamfer — are ISO 1206 standard values, identical for every manufacturer.

NA4856 — bore 280 mm, outside diameter 350 mm, width 69 mm (B)Ø d 280Ø D 350Ø Fw 305front viewB 69r s min 2side view
NA4856 — single-row needle roller bearing with machined rings, extra-light seriesISO 1206 boundary dimensions · mm · Not to scale
bore d280 mm
needle complement diameter Fw305 mm
outside diameter D350 mm
width B69 mm
Bore code56
Radial section35 mm
Designation
NA4856
Type
Single-row needle roller bearing with machined rings — radial
Bore code
56 — 280 mm
Bore d
280 mm (11.0236 in)
needle complement diameter Fw
305 mm
outside diameter D
350 mm
width B
69 mm — the assembled width
Chamfer, r s min
2 mm — minimum, not nominal
Radial section
35 mm = (D − d) / 2

Nominal values in millimetres as published in ISO 1206, the boundary dimension plan this type is tabulated in. The chamfer figure is the minimum single chamfer dimension the plan gives (r s min); the matching maximum is in ISO 582 — which is why the row says “min” and not an equality. A bearing that has been fitted with shields or seals carries the same dimensions, because none of the suffixes touches the boundary dimension plan.

Reading the designationwhere 280 mm comes from

Type codeNA — single-row needle roller bearing with machined rings
Dimension series48 — extra-light
Bore code56
Bore arithmetic56 × 5 = 280 mm

The designation is three fields: type, the series and the bore code. For codes 04 and above the bore is the code multiplied by five, which is why 56 gives 280 mm. The four exceptions are 00, 01, 02 and 03 at 10, 12, 15 and 17 mm.

Position in the series14 of 15 in NA 48 Series

No radial clearance table on this pagesingle-row needle roller bearing with machined rings

ISO 5753-1 does give needle roller bearings a radial clearance table of their own, and the bore of a na48-series bearing falls inside it. What stops a table appearing here is not the standard but the reproductions of it: the catalogue versions consulted contradict each other in every clearance group, so none of them can be confirmed as the standard’s own, and this library does not publish a figure it cannot attribute. That is the opposite of the tapered and thrust cases above — there the standard fixes a different quantity, here the quantity is fixed and the figures differ.

What is deliberately not publishedwhy there is no load rating here

No load rating, no limiting speed and no mass appears on this page. Those are catalogue values rather than standard values: ISO 281 defines how a dynamic rating is calculated, not what it comes out as, and the result depends on internal geometry — ball or roller diameter, the complement, raceway conformity — that none of the boundary dimension plans (ISO 15, ISO 355, ISO 104, ISO 1206) fixes. Published catalogue figures for one and the same designation differ between makes by several percent at these sizes, and limiting speed additionally depends on lubrication and on whether the bearing is open, shielded or sealed. Publishing any single figure here would dress a catalogue entry up as a property of the designation. Take the rating from the catalogue of the bearing you actually buy.

The dimensions above are a different matter, and they are the reason a designation is worth anything: the boundary dimensions — bore, outside diameter and the section dimensions of the plan this type is tabulated in, plus the chamfer minimum where that plan gives one — are fixed by the standard, so every maker's bearing of this designation fits the same shaft and the same housing.

Same bore, every series and typewhat a 280 mm shaft would take instead

DesignationSeriesTypeDOverall size (B / T / H)Section (D − d)/2vs NA4856
NA4856Extra-light — this bearingNeedle roller35069 B35—
60566000 Series — Extra-lightDeep groove ball42065 B70+70 mm on D
62566200 Series — LightDeep groove ball50080 B110+150 mm on D
63566300 Series — MediumDeep groove ball580108 B150+230 mm on D

4 series across two bearing types, one bore: the shaft diameter is the same in every row, so the only thing that changes is what the housing and the axial space have to accommodate. Outside diameter and the overall size are standard boundary dimensions in the plan each type is tabulated in (ISO 15 / ISO 15 / ISO 355 / ISO 104 / ISO 15 / ISO 15 / ISO 1206) — the same figure for every manufacturer. The section column is derived as (D − d) / 2. Load capacity rises with the outside diameter, but the figure itself has to come from the manufacturer’s catalogue for the bearing you actually buy — see above.

Where this part sitsthe family drawing, for context

Schematic front view of a deep-groove ball bearing with bore and outside diameter dimensionedØ D 52Ø d 25
6205d 25 · D 52 · B 15 mm
BearingsOne of the 13 mechanical part families in this database. This page covers seven bearing types — deep groove ball, self-aligning ball, tapered roller, thrust ball, cylindrical roller, spherical roller and needle roller — each tabulated in its own boundary dimension plan.All families →