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Originally Posted by Walter White
I am not familiar with the video you mentioned, but it would be nice if the oil would sling off the chains, but stick to the bearing.
When I was experimenting with getting oil to a bearing spinning at 4 - 6K RPMs, I was getting the idea that the bearing wasn't getting any oil at all. I would drop a drop of oil into the race of the spinning bearing and it would instantly vaporize. I don't think the oil ever even got to the contact surfaces.
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At high rpms, ball bearings prefer an oil vapor. Take a look at ball bearing turbos, albeit at a much higher rpm, they fog the bearings.