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Re: Bearings vs Bearing Blocks

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Originally Posted by Chak View Post
Can you further explain this point please? I don't understand how bearing blocks would help bumps, since they should be just as rigid as popping bearings in.
Rigidity is not what I was looking at. I was looking at the fact that bearing blocks can make the wheels stick farther down from the frame and give the robot more clearance between the floor and the bellypan.

And no, I did not search "bearing block" in google images.