First time poster, long time reader.
Hah this thread turned into one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. The drummer from my old band was terrible in maintaining his drum kit. The squeak got so bad we made him show us his kick drum pedal, and the bearing had totally fallen out of it. The bar that pivots had eaten about 3/4 of in inch down the insert area and was full of metal flakes etc. He didn't last long after that.