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Originally Posted by Chris is me
We take a weight penalty by doing this, but this is why we just drill through a 1/8" extrusion and mount our bearings in a stationary manner. Precision milling multiple solid parts like the Poofs do and making them concentric is harder for us with our resources, so maybe it would be easier to do that and add floating tensioners or idlers.
To make up for the inefficiency of not necessarily being able to get a perfect chain tension, we switched to belts. This line of thought ultimately led to how we decided to make our "west coast" (east coast?) drive.
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The assumption that the bearing blocks must be difficult to make is flawed. They can be dlne really simple and easy.