Bearing for hamster wheel
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€0.51 – €0.62 net (excluding VAT)
For file: hamster_wheel_2_0.4n_0.15mm_PETG_MINI_3h39m.gcode
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- Weight reported by the author
- 3 g
- Print time reported by the author
- 46.2 min
- Source material
- PET
- Estimate material
- PETG
- Estimate printer
- Bambu Lab P1S - 0.4 nozzle
- Estimate process
- 0.20mm Standard
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The hamster wheel was very noisy, so I added a ball bearing
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Nudli, our hamster loves running, mostly at night. She runs for hours and makes a lot of noise, due to the hamster wheel not being made very well. It lacks a proper bearing, the plastic wheel runs on the diam. 6 steel wire shaft, and needless to say that the tolerances are huge. This results in a lot of noise. But not anymore!
With some CAD and printing, now we have a smooth running roller bearing supported hamster wheel, saving us from going crazy.
Materials used: printed parts out of PETG, 1x 16003 deep groove ball bearing (17x35x8 mm, <2 EUR), 6x M3x8 screws
Tools used: electric hand drill with diam. 3 drill bit, to drill the through holes for the screws in the hamster wheel
How to:
- cut a diam. 60.5 - 61 mm hole into the back of the hamster wheel, removing the original “bearing” (I used a utility knife)
- insert the diam 60 mm shoulder of the bearing holder (the disk with the inner threads) into the freshly cut hole, and drill though the 3.5 mm holes with a 3 mm drill
- from the back side put on the support ring (the simple ring with six holes in it) and drive in the 6 pcs. of M3x8 screws, though the hamster wheel into the support ring
- put in the ball bearing, fasten it with the larger nut
- put the inner sleeve on the shaft, put on the outer sleeve (it's conical inside, will expand when tightened, look for the correct orientation!), put on the wheel with the bearing and tighten with the small nut until fixed on the shaft