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Re: Bearings vs Bearing Blocks

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Originally Posted by nuclearnerd View Post
There is an easy solution. Drill a 1.25" hole and rivet over one of these
We used something very similar. Our chassis in 2015 was made of 0.050 2024-T3, which is structurally sound, but .050 is a little thin to retain bearings, so we made up some similar parts as above out of 0.090 6061-T6 sheet to rivet on to help relieve the bearing stresses. They seemed to work out really well adding mass only where it needed to be.