Bearings can come with at least three types of cages, stamped steel, brass or plastic. The big advantage of plastic cages is that they won't microweld to the balls at very high speed. Brass cages are good for this too. Steel cages can fail in this way if lubrication is sparse and the surface speeds are too high. Nothing wrong with plastic cages in this application in my opinion. Cheers Dan

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