Thorny_InsightI fixed my dad's angle grinder with a ball bearing I salvaged from my gerbil's old excercise wheel a few years back.
Captain AggravatedSo what do we think folks? Underbuilt angle grinder or overbuilt gerbil wheel?
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.
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.