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Originally Posted by Orion.DeYoe
Swerve is something I've wanted to build in the offseason for a while. I understand the mechanical and control concept of it and I know how it's driven and mostly how the modules need to be constructed.
The point that I have a really hard time understanding is how the pivot is set up. Does it just ride metal on metal? Or is there some sort of bearings, rollers, or slip pads/blocks? How do you contain the rotating module (the yoke) up and down and side-to-side while still being able to disassemble it? No one seems to have any good cross section views of the modules in an assembled state.
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We use thrust bearings in the top of the yoke so that it can carry weight but still rotate freely.
What do you mean by contain the rotating module? We have a retaining ring at the top of the pivot shaft that keeps it from falling out the bottom. The sides of our yoke have 3 bolts that have threads on the top of the yoke to connect. On ours at least it takes about 2 hours to get every thing to go together, to take it apart it can take up to 6 after a little use(with the help of a hammer). Our pivot shaft is thermal press fit in to the top of the yoke. We can not get it out even if we wanted to.