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Re: Design Feedback?

My biggest concern would be the bearing in the .125" thick plate with a cantilevered spool at the end. If you're moving that six stack up and down quickly, there's going to be a lot of forces trying to bend the plate or make the hole into an oval.

Art Dutra brought up a valid concern with putting too many bearings on the same shaft and 'overlocating' it, but I think you could get away with a third bearing on the plate closest to the output side if you used a previously cut plate as a fixture for the next plate so they would be lined up. You're also using hex shafts and hex bearings, which tend to have sloppy fits anyway.