All "bearings" in the machine were plastic sleeves. The drum is moved by a belt so thin I thought it was a piece of string to tie it in place. The tensioner o

All "bearings" in the machine were plastic sleeves. The drum is moved by a belt so thin I thought it was a piece of string to tie it in place. The tensioner on said belt was literally nothing more than a bent coat hanger with a little plastic pulley. This part of the design was important because the "emergency stop" in the even of the belt breaking was that the coat hanger would go flying off into the machine and stop pressing against a little micro-switch glued to the side of the motor mount.