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I fixed my dad's angle grinder with a ball bearing I salvaged from my gerbil's old excercise wheel a few years back. (i.ibb.co)
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It was even the same brand. I love when hoarding materials pays off.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So what do we think folks? Underbuilt angle grinder or overbuilt gerbil wheel?

[–] zarcher@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 5 points 1 year 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 1 points 1 year 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.