We don’t use the blender much, so the most recent bearing replacement continues to work. I never got around to re-making the overly long shaft spacer from the first bearing replacement, which I compensated for with a spacer kludge cut from a random chunk of bendy plastic sheet.
Which we put up with For. Eleven. Years.
The blender recently emerged from hiding and, with my solid modeling-fu cranked up to a dangerous chattering whine, I conjured a real spacer:
It pretty much disappears into the blender base, which is the whole point of the operation:
When the bearings fail again, I promise to make a proper shaft spacer and toss this bodge.
The OpenSCAD code as a GitHub Gist:
Not that it really deserves so much attention …
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