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Re: VEX Robotics Relaunches VEXpro Product Line with over 120 New & Improved Products

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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli View Post
Since you do not have to completely clamp the motor face to the VP mounting face, any shaft runnout misalignment between the motor shaft and motor mounting face is completely mitigated by just hand tightening the mounting motor plate mounting screws. Since the screws only act to keep the motor case from spinning, they only need a little loctite and hand tightening.
Am I understanding correctly that the motor is essentially floating, and any shaft runout is taken up by the flexure of the motor shaft, the play in the bearing and the play in the spline?

(And it works fine without a fancy spherical-race bearing, because the runout is so small?)
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