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Re: The in-wheel swerve shifter!

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Originally Posted by Madison View Post
Would you happen to know of a source for one-way bearings that fit in typical FRC drives and are rated for the loads we see?
McMaster has some. You would need to do some load tests though; they're rated pretty low. For that reason they would probably be on the CIM shaft (they come with 8mm bore)

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Originally Posted by Greg Woelki View Post
Slip inside the bearing you mean? My team used a one way bearing on our winch this year. We press fit it into a bearing block and press fit a coupler into it. The friction was strong enough to hold everything from moving even with 500 in*lbs of torque on the coupler acting against the bearing.
Wow, that's pretty buff!