It was even the same brand. I love when hoarding materials pays back.
So what do we think folks? Underbuilt angle grinder or overbuilt gerbil wheel?
I fixed my dad's angle grinder with a ball bearing I salvaged from my gerbil's old excercise wheel a few years back.
Submitted 7 months ago by Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee to imadethis@lemm.ee
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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
zarcher@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Its a mass produced bearing type. Most likely the cheapest option for both devices. Optimizing a bearing for a gerbil wheel seems like the real overengineering in my opinion.
DogWater@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is one of the counter intuitive things about production at scale. I remember I added factory cruise control to a Mazda 3 by buying the steering wheel with the buttons and having a technician flip a switch in the ECU. Everything else was already there.
They never made any additional changes to non equipped cara because it’s cheaper to just produce 1 part or 1 configuration and digitally lock it out. 2500$ option with a 200$ fix.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Thing is, when I had gerbils, their exercise wheel turned on a cylinder of plastic inside another cylinder of plastic. I also had one that was a wire wheel with sheet metal spokes and a wire base, the “bearings” were the wires of the base poked into holes in the spokes. A gerbil wheel having a ball bearing at all seems a little bit extra to me.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not all bearings are created equal. This might last for years. This also might explode into fast-moving metal shards in a day. It shouldn’t be a big problem if it does, as an angle grinder should be built to contain exploding bearings, but it might be worth ordering a higher-spec bearing to have on hand before you need it in a hurry.
Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Those look like skateboard bearings to me, they are quite common. A relatively high quality set of 8 bearings is like 15 bucks if you have a skateshop nearby
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Reds. Look for Bones Reds.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
That’s either a very over-engineered hamster wheel, or that grinder was under spec’d.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yeah, it’s a Ryobi grinder and the excercise wheel was quite high quality one.
mihnt@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Yep, pretty sure there’s some overlap in that, lol.
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
That’s a balls-y move.
wiLD0@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They don’t make gerbil exercise wheels like they used to.
Alice@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago
That’s dope man!
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What happened to your gerbil, op?
Your answer will be highly scrutinized.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Something involving angle grinders.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 7 months ago
o7 He was the bravest little cosmonaut trainee
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 7 months ago
They used the old one as a toilet and it made the entire terrarium smell like piss
bitchkat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
OP flushed him but that plugged the pipes so he had to use a drum auger clear the blockage.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Safely stored in rectum
emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
6201RS
The 6201 is a good fit for this application, and providing the hamsters weren’t too hard on it, should last a long time.
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Comments like these are why I periodically still love the internet.
emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I kinda needed this today, thank you. <3
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 months ago
This guy bearing.
CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I recently took apart my weed whacker and it used the same ball bearing. I actually learned that these ball bearing casings (?) are super common. I replaced mine with a skate board bearing and it’s as good as new.