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Re: pic: WCD

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Originally Posted by MICHAELABICK View Post
If you really need to that would probably be fine(but only if you're direct driving your centers). I just see so limited downside in going without bearing blocks. If you have the resources to spend on completely custom gearboxes then it's not going to take very long to make 8-12 973/1323 bearing blocks. Especially now with the new WCP gearboxes you can shift the resources used to make the gearboxes over to making bearing blocks that improve your consistency and efficiency.
But the point is that if you simply don't need them, don't bother with the weight, complexity, cost, or manufacturing time, and the resources you would have shifted from gearboxes to bearing blocks can now be focused on something more relevant to the challenge. The question is whether you need them, and there is some solid evidence coming forward that you don't (with the usual caveat: if you do it right).

And I'm not sure what, if anything, direct driving the center wheel would have to do with an exact c-c?

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