Different size bearings??
- Thread starter Jimmi
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Never seen it. You could have different sizes on different sides of the hub, but not mixed sizes on same side. Not a hub, but Kona Control Centre headsets had bigger bearings at the bottom vs the top.
To be fair, a ball bearing on its escape can comfortably exceed the speed of light. Accepted physics be damned, I can never see where the <*+@#£> things go at the time, or find them later.
Looks like someone lost a couple of the larger balls under the workbench and decided to pad them out with some smaller ones.
Your missing ball bearings are probably under my fridge somewhere.
It's a nightmare when it happens. My theory is when you've cleaned them, got everything greased including on your hands because you've placed most of the balls already one will be magnetically drawn under something like a washing machine, tumble drier, and will invariably find the filthiest spot covered in dust and cobwebs.
Gone to the trouble before now putting a large bed sheet down after learning the hard way not all headsets have caged bearings.
If I was the OP, I'd check the top race of the headset for five missing ball bearings. 
