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Re: pic: 2" Mecanum Wheel

BTI can do them however you don't need really fancy machines to do this. Mill and Lathe a CNC lathe would be nice for the rollers. The money for the hubs is all time there are many features on the part which will take a lot of time to get every single one of them. I have seen the prints on these things it's at least 6-10 hours for one hub in my opinion. This is because the hub has to be lathed down to size first and drilled out, then has to go on an indexing head to make the slots evenly spaced from each other, and finally a rotary table to make the bolt circle. All of this just takes a lot of setup time. G/l though Tytus. One way to do these parts quickly is with a combo mill /lathe probably 6 to 8 axis CNC which are rare and extremely expensive.

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