Quick and dirty Ball bearing upgrade

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Even dirtier version of ball bearing upgrade. Instead of fender washer, I used regular M16 washer and instead of epoxy, I used just superglue gel. Instructions Use superglue to glue the washers to the bearing. I used gel version, because it allows slight adjustment to better center the washer with the bearing. It took less than 5 minutes to complete the thing. It is heavy, but not too bad. It has been working on my reprap for several years without any issue. One thing I noticed: if you put M8 washer so it is inside the M16 opening, depending on manufacturing tolerances and centering of M8/16 washers on the rod/bearing, it may have sometimes chance of catching. I had this happen once. If that happens, just try different washer, file/sand it smaller, or center it before tightening the nut. Using nut directly against the bearing seems to work very well though. On the last assembly, I used few passes with round file to make the M16 a bit bigger inside just in case.