spinning reel - bearing balls?

[Silent]

Giddy ausfishers,

I noticed those spinning reel labeled with numbers of bearing balls.
Sorry it sound like I'm idiot :-[ to ask this question but I'm keen to know how it works.

Hope anybody (tackle guru) can describe how it work, maybe a picture of them would be much appreciate.

[Jeremy87]

Anything that rotates can sit on a bearing. When they say ball bearing they don't mean a single steel ball they mean two circles and the same plain and axis (one smaller than the other sitting inside the bigger oen)with balls inbetween them like a wheel bearing. In simple terms the more bearings in a reel the smoother it should be. Since this is fairly common knowledge manufaacturors use this as a selling point and put heaps of sh!t bearings in cheap reels to make them sound better. A reel with fewer better quality bearings with outlast a reel with more crap ones.

[frankgrimes]

This may help: http://www.tackletour.com/articlebearings101.html (Hopefully link is allowed)