I have had customers remove the top seal from the bearing and submerge in iso to clean. Just be aware, there is a chance of the balls in the bearing flash rusting if you let them get dry for too long without some kind of oil on them. I recommend putting a drop of avocado, olive, veg oil in the bearing etc as its food safe. I personally would just dab some iso drenched Qtip around the lid to clean it when the time comes.
Oh, I had no idea lubricating the bearings was a thing we would have to do at all until now... Not thrilled about the idea, I'm also not exactly sure where the lubrication should be going? It is all sealed up in there I wouldn't really feel comfortable just smearing oil all over personally... Like I'm someone who's always washing my hands from oils, I don't like lotions etc, I wouldn't really want loose oil around somewhere like that where I'll end up touching it and then feeling like I need to wash my hands?
I have purchased some ceramic bearings just now to test out. Thankyou for taking the risk and trying them in your grinder!
As part of me being open and honest with you all i need to share that i I have had some concerns from people regarding the bearing sliding on and off the post potentially causing metal dust. To alleviate any concerns i would like to offer ceramic bearings on my website.
I obviously need to test them out to make sure they dont break on install (might mean i need to hold a super dooper tight tolerance on the lid bearing pocket) and are fit for purpose.
Super keen to hear you guys thoughts on this?
Yes this is one of the things I was waiting for! Hoping you would offer these same ceramic bearings Les discovered, so I wouldn't even have to bother trying to change bearings, and I could get a second OMD from you with it (along with customized finer holed middle plate as I had mentioned previously so it would compliment my current OMD perfectly)
The minute amounts of black dust accumulate on the white ceramic bearing as well (probably worse but not sure as ceramics can be about 3x harder than S/S) and is also more noticeable than with s/s raced bearings due to the ceramics being white.
Oh I had no idea about this dust issue I suppose it is a concern but I didn't notice anything with mine, I do wonder if it would be better with the ceramic and the new post since you don't have that one yet either? Seemed like you wouldn't need it because the ceramics are non-magnetic already but if they are rubbing too much...?
I believe the new filleted post design should help with this as there is a lot less contact area, however its something i need to test!
Yeah I wonder how this improves more of these issues...
Alrighty, I think any bearing would be fine if it was in conjunction with a post with a pressed in PEEK top section
Oooh full peek protection now so my above comments may be irrelevant, more changes, but you could not soak it in alcohol at all if it had this now then?? I don't know tough to clean plastics sometimes even though peek is such high quality?
I trust you'll figure it all out!