Hey Eggplant, thanks a lot for that! You saved me 5 bucks! If you are in town i'll buy you a bear, for real.
@ Operator, nah i don't mean buying cheap as bearings. But i mean my pedals for example. They are real nice and cheap, they cost me 25 dollars. But they will last about 10.000 miles at best. Now i could buy pedals that cost twice that and that offer very little in terms of increased functionality. However, they may last 20.000 or even 30.000 miles. So what if i just add the zerk fittings (small job i think) and then can ride my pedals for 30.000 ormore miles for the outlay of like 1 to 5 dollars.
Sounds like a pretty good deal to me/sensible. What is also a factor to me is that i am a durability freak/live in a very wet country and have aspirations of becoming a world tourer. I like to buy things for life (well, or for very long anyway) whenever possible.
Also in quite some bearing assemblies it is pointless to replace the balls if the races/cups/cones are shot...