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Re: Custom bushings

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Originally Posted by Tyler2517 View Post
You could try using a set up like 1640 uses for their swerve drive. It can support huge amounts of weight and take a good hit. Its also pretty compact. Just mount it upside down? It uses a thrust bearing to handle the axial loads and a very large bearing to handle radial loads.
Sounds interesting. As I said though, because this is pretty low-budget (we have other stuff to work on too) I wanted to avoid ball bearings.

Slewing rings sounds interesting, but they are a little big.

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