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Originally Posted by Ben Bordelon
Thanks for the ideas. I had originally thought of the bracket going around but we are trying to limit the amount of welding we do because we don't have much access to tools during the off season.
Is there anywhere we can buy a bracket like that?
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You could purchase four 1/2" shaft pillow blocks (I found low load ones on mcmaster for $4 per), two 1/2" clevis pins, and 2 cottar pins. Have the pillow blocks mounted in pairs on opposite sides of the robot and put a hole on opposite sides of where you want the barrel attached. Put the clevis pins through the holes on the pillow blocks and the holes in the barrel structure, then put cottar pins through the clevis pins to retain them.
Then follow one of EricH's suggestions for driving it up and down around the axis defined by the 2 clevis pins.