Sudden Death. . . . . . . . of My New Band Saw UPDATED

I used to cut the curves, circles and such for different pieces of furniture with a fret or coping saw that is hand held.  Eventually, I decided that a scroll saw would work better and it did until I started to make things from thicker pieces of wood.  Now I have a band saw.  It was only three months old when tragedy struck.  It started with a little tapping noise that moved onto a full blown pop.  The bearing in the upper wheel that helps move the saw blade around decided to come apart.  As you will see in the following two pics. n_n

You can see the little ball bearings saying hello there inside of the bearing.  This is what I saw when I opened up the band saw.  I had opened up the saw before to try and find what I thought was something loose and moving around.  

This is what fell out of the band saw after I opened it up.  The little wavy washer is what is supposed to keep the ball bearings inside of the bearing.  

So what does this all mean. . . . .Well I looked the company that makes the band saw up online and you can send them your tool and they will repair it and send it back.  Down fall of this is I would have to send my saw to the States and I live in Canada.  With our dollar being really low at this time it would cost quite a bit to ship the band saw there and even more to have it returned.  Another option was to call the company and order new parts.  Of course they need to check their warehouse to see if they have them in stock.  If they are not in stock they will need to be ordered from Germany and could take three months to arrive.   Then my final option is to call my father and see if he can fix it.  He's one of those people that can fix and do almost anything (exempt food, cooking is not his thing, unless you can count bbqing as cooking)
So what does this mean for furniture making.  Hopefully just a slight hiccup for now.  I have several pieces almost done in 1/4 scale.  Yet this happened when I was cutting out the pieces I needed to start making some 1/3 scale furniture.  So for now I'll finish what I have started (pics soon) and work more doll clothes 1/3 and 1/4 size.
Sorry for the rant.  Good way to start the new year. n_n

UPDATE: She's fixed.  I took the entire wheel assembly to my dad and he took it apart.  Each wheel has two bearings so that it runs smoothly.  Well, the bearing that came apart, because two of the tiny ball bearing inside had a defect of not being totally round.  So part of them were flat.  So when the bearings would turn and the ball bearings inside would spin round.  They wouldn't spin round properly.  My dad removed the two defective ball bearing and replaced them with ones he had saved from something else he a had worked on.  Then put everything back together.  n_n  I still ordered four new bearings from Proxxon.  Just to be on the safe side and shit decided to go every where again.  Since it's now fixed I have been cutting out more 1/4 and 1/3 sized chairs and such.