Where can I buy about 100 ball bearings?

Project's been through a couple of revisions, but the price I got from the local guy was $6 per ball for 1" balls. That seems astoundingly expensive. Granted, I was working across a language barrier (I live in Shebrooke, Quebec... my French is pretty good in the giving-directions and buying-milk sense, but I've never had to talk about mechanical parts in French before), but they seemed to be asking for $6 per 1" ball. Which is about 400% more than I can afford...

- Matt

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matthewshepherd
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Ideally (for a non-bearing art project) you'd want to hook up with someone who actually uses these for bearings, and replaces them, at which point the old ones might be cheap/scrap/free, if lacking somewhat in bearing perfection.

If you choose non-bearing quality low-carbon steel balls, US$15 will get you 25 1 inch balls from McMaster-Carr. These balls are used for ball milling (grinding stuff to powder in a rotating cylinder), and are much less expensive than bearing balls (which are hardened and precision ground). Thus, simply by looking for "ball bearing balls" you may be pricing yourself out of the market without having any need to do so.

OTOH, they also have bearing quality balls for as little as $1/each in 1 inch, and as much as $30+ each...

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Ecnerwal

Indeed. Which sorta chops out the props from under the Canadians who claim some higher moral authority over the people whos protective umbrella they have enjoyed for these many many years.

Gunner

"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around."

"Democrat. In the dictionary it's right after demobilize and right before demode` (out of fashion).

-Buddy Jordan 2001

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Gunner

He got caught, busted, tried and jailed by our (US) guys. Next.

Snarl

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snarl

The higher moral authority is just the dumb ones repeating what someone with an agenda told them about the other side. Or someone pushing an agenda.

Most Canadians still believe that violent crime is a US problem and that it does not happen here. A few know better. Between the media pushing their angle, and the politicians pushing theirs, it takes a pretty adept reader to get between the lines of crap sometimes. FWIW we were a few points higher in the per capita violent crime rates than the States, we just have a lower population to draw our nightly news from.

As to the protective umbrella, I can recall seeing maps showing where the fallout of that particular umbrella was going to land. Most of it was not landing in the US. I would call the relationship mutually beneficial, much of the time, though politicians on both sides of the Canada US line have pushed it into the abusive range at times. Not something to start a shouting match in the streets over unless a guy is real hard up for entertainment. We have the benefit of proximity, and pay for it by becoming part of the disposable shield zone. All said and done, we are not in a situation similar to many of the european states, where there are neighbors and potential invaders on all sides, and the countries are small enough to move across in short order. Even that is becoming less of an issue, with the interconnection of the economies preventing a break in the established order.

Cheers Trevor Jones

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Trevor Jones

Actually...most of it was.

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"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around."

"Democrat. In the dictionary it's right after demobilize and right before demode` (out of fashion).

-Buddy Jordan 2001

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Gunner

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To be clear, I was referring not to radioactive fallout as a result of targeted hits, but from the defence sheild put up by NORAD. Those don't take into account the DEW/ Pine line and the planned intercepts of the polar route attacks that were pretty much seen as the incoming threat during the cold war. Not to make light of what would have happened as a result of what would have made it through, which seems to be the emphasis of the info here, but the plan was to be intercepting a lot of the incoming crap over our neighborhood, not yours. I doubt very much that current doctrine is looking at any other options at this time, just different delivery technology.

Genie missiles and VooDoo interceptors were still a pretty going concern here in Canada twenty odd years back. They were not being used for Canadian sovereinty patrols, but were a part of the NORAD net that was put in place for the primary purpose of keeping the shit out of the US.

In this day and age I have my doubts that any of the large powers would launch. The detection technology is at a stage where too maany counterstrikes can be launched by someone that may or may not still be home when the counterstrikes land. If they do... bad stuff for all concerned, but it still does not make it Canada's fault. :-)

Cheers Trevor Jones

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Trevor Jones

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