FAGWS22213E1XL2RSRSealed Double-Row Spherical Roller Bearing 65x120x38 mm, Contact Lip Seals Both Sides, Straight Bore, X-life – For Vibrating Screens and Contaminated Service

Product Description

What this part is

A FAG sealed double-row spherical roller bearing, 65 mm bore × 120 mm outside diameter × 38 mm width, with contact lip seals on both sides and a straight cylindrical bore. This is the sealed spherical roller family aimed squarely at heavily contaminated and high-vibration service — vibrating screens, shakers, and dirty conveyor and crusher positions where an open bearing’s grease would be contaminated within weeks. FAG is part of Schaeffler.

Confirming the dimensions — 38 mm is correct

This deserves saying explicitly because it looks like an error and is not. A standard open 22213-E1-XL is 65 × 120 × 31 mm, and a 22313 is 65 × 140 × 48 mm. Seeing 65 × 120 × 38 mm on a bearing labelled 22213 naturally invites a correction to 31 mm.

That correction would be wrong. The sealed WS version genuinely has a wider envelope than the open bearing, because the extra width is what houses the seals. The pattern holds consistently across the range — the open 22218-E1-XL is 90 × 160 × 40 mm while the sealed WS22218-E1-XL-2RSR is 90 × 160 × 48 mm. So 38 mm is the real published width for this part and has been retained as found. The practical consequence for a buyer is important: a sealed WS bearing will not drop into a housing designed around the open bearing’s width. Check the axial space before ordering.

Decoding the designation

WS — FAG’s prefix for the sealed spherical roller bearing family built for contaminated and vibratory service.
222 / 13 — double-row spherical roller bearing, 22-dimension series, 65 mm bore.
E1 — FAG’s optimised high-capacity internal design.
XL — Schaeffler’s X-life quality grade.
2RSR — contact lip seals on both sides. The R codes are seal designations, not shield codes: these are rubbing lip seals in contact with the inner ring, which is what makes the bearing genuinely tight against ingress rather than merely shrouded.
No K — the bore is straight and cylindrical, so it mounts on a plain interference-fit shaft seat with no adapter sleeve. A tapered-bore version does exist as WS22213-E1-XL-K-2RSR, and the two are not interchangeable.

Why a sealed spherical roller earns its price

In screen and shaker duty the failure mode is almost never fatigue — it is contamination and lubricant breakdown. Fine abrasive dust migrating past a labyrinth or a housing seal turns the grease into a lapping compound, and the bearing wears out long before its calculated life. Contact lip seals integrated into the bearing itself put the sealing barrier at the last possible point, inboard of every housing seal, and hold the factory grease charge in place under the constant high-frequency acceleration that pumps grease out of an open bearing.

The trade-offs are real and worth knowing. Contact seals add drag, which generates heat and caps the speed well below an open bearing of the same size — and speed is rarely the constraint in screen duty, which is why the compromise works there and not elsewhere. Seals also have a temperature ceiling set by the elastomer, not the steel.

Published ratings and mounting data

The figures below are from distributor mirrors of Schaeffler’s catalogue data rather than from Schaeffler directly, since Schaeffler’s own site could not be read. Treat them as provisional and confirm before using them in a life calculation:

Dynamic load rating Cr — 202 kN
Static load rating Cor — 210 kN
Fatigue limit load Cu — approximately 25.5 to 26.5 kN, depending on source
Speed — 1,740 rpm. Sources disagree on whether this is the reference or the limiting speed, so treat it as the practical ceiling either way.
Mass — approximately 1.8 to 2.0 kg, depending on source
Calculation factors — e 0.24, Y1 2.81, Y2 4.19, Y0 2.75

Static rating exceeding dynamic rating is normal and correct for roller bearings. Note how low the speed figure is against an open bearing of this size — that is the contact seals at work, and it is the number most likely to disqualify this bearing from a non-screen application.

Seal material, temperature range and whether the bearing can be relubricated in service are not published on any accessible source. Schaeffler’s sealed spherical rollers are conventionally nitrile lip seals with a relubrication provision, but that is convention rather than published fact for this designation, so no claim is made. If seal compatibility with your lubricant or process chemistry matters, or if you need to grease the bearing in service, confirm with Schaeffler before ordering.

Fitting notes

Check the available axial width in the housing first — at 38 mm this bearing is 7 mm wider than the open 22213 it might be replacing. Mount the 65 mm interference fit with an induction heater or oil bath rather than driving it on, and never pass mounting force through the rollers from one ring to the other. Take particular care not to damage or invert the seal lips during handling; a nicked lip defeats the entire purpose of the bearing. Do not attempt to prise the seals out to inspect or repack unless you are prepared to replace the bearing.

Interchange guidance

The tapered-bore sibling is WS22213-E1-XL-K-2RSR. Other makers offer competing sealed spherical roller families rather than direct suffix equivalents — SKF’s sealed spherical rollers and Timken’s sealed spherical roller range occupy the same niche, but seal design, envelope and ratings differ between them, so cross-shopping requires checking the actual dimensions rather than trusting the 22213 base number. Critically, the open 22213-E1-XL at 65 × 120 × 31 mm is not a substitute: it is narrower, unsealed, and has different ratings. It will fit a narrower housing this bearing will not, and it will not survive the duty this one is built for.