[steelerborn]

The McMaster Carr bearings are round bearings not half inch hex, if you lathe down the shafts you can use the round bearings. So I am not comparing apples to pineapples or something.

No I haven't reached out to vex however I still believe they should put the bearing specs on their website. And I don't believe that the bearings specs are in excess for every single frc application. I believe that their max rpm is a lot lower than everyone "assumes". I will reach out to vex about their bearing specs. But 1000 rpm difference with only a bearing swap is very significant in my eyes.