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Re: Mounting radial bearing 217-3246 (vexpro)

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Originally Posted by InFlight View Post
This particular Vex bearing is an industry standard R3 size, available at lots of other vendors as well. If you want an non-Flanged sealed bearing it's a R3zz.
The Flanged version is a FR3zz. If you drop the zz suffix they are open bearings.

3/16 is a fairly small shaft size, be careful with the loads applied on that in your design.
What type of bearing might work if the load was to be approximately 15 lbs. distributed across 4 bearings?