Boiler wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:54 pm
Damn.
I thought I'd look at the bicycle. Unfortunately, the box with some of the bits of 3-speed in it has been used as a mouse nest over winter and as a result, some of the ball bearings are rusted thanks to mouse wee
Oh well, I was going to buy new balls for it anyway; what's the best sort for a bicycle?
Depends where they are, I suppose, but steel in general. I assume you're using loose balls rather than cartridge bearings on something that age. For cartridge bearings, I ignore bike-rebranded stuff and just buy SKF or FAG bearings for the local machine works.
Spoke to a guy at a race last year, who spoke very highly of the ceramic hybrid bearings he'd had fitted in his headset. A rather expensive option for a bearing that, unless something very bad indeed happens, will never complete a full revolution. A case of nodding politely and waking away.