[Bill Gold]

Last year Team #258 used roller blade bearings on shafts in their crab modules. I found them really cheap at a local sports store. The only problem was that none of the roller blade bearings I know of have shoulders or flanges. So we had to glue the bearings into the plates, and try design our plates to better prevent the bearings from trying to pop out. One popped out a little less than halfway through Cal Games, but luckily we had made stainless steel plates (which we hadn’t used until that point) to prevent against this. So we popped a new bearing in, and put the cover plate over it, and it was good to go for the rest of the competition.