The invention discloses a production technology for a bearing steel
wire rod. The production technology comprises the following working procedures of blank pretreatment, billet steel heating, high-pressure water de-scaling, rough and intermediate rolling and pre-finishing rolling, finish rolling, reducing and
sizing rolling, on-line finish product
diameter measurement,
spinning, air-cooling and finishing. Bearing steel is composed of, by weight, 0.95 percent-1.05 percent of C, 0.25 percent-0.45 percent of Mn, 0.15 percent-0.35 percent of Si, less than or equal to 0.02 percent of P, less than or equal to 0.006 percent of S, 1.45 percent -1.6 percent of Cr, less than or equal to 0.1 percent of Ni, less than or equal to 0.13 percent of Cu, less than or equal to 0.002 percent of Ti, less than or equal to 0.04 percent of Al, 0.05 percent of Mo, less than or equal to 0.001 percent of Ca and the balance being Fe. By the adoption of the controlled rolling and cooling technology, the
process control over the bearing steel
wire rod is performed to obtain properly spheroidized granular P texture. Good
Carbide uniformity is achieved, and surface quality and dimension accuracy are stable. In a bearing steel wiredrawing factory, one ball can be drawn to form the finished steel wire in a one-off mode, so that production efficiency is substantially enhanced, and meanwhile the production cost is lowered.