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Originally Posted by Billfred
I can't speak on live axles, but 1293 used threaded rod as a dead axle on a total of 16 different wheels over the past two seasons (two on Ockham, six on Chomp, and then double that for their practice robots). I can count the number of problems we had with it on zero fingers.
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I suppose it makes little difference if the bearings are riding in the wheels or in the frame.
Coupling nuts are a small miracle, by the way.
McMaster-Carr doesn't carry studs of convenient length, so I was resigned to assigning some poor student to threading steel rod with a die, but if we can cheat a bit and use rod that's threaded along its whole length, that'll save me from the dishonor of assigning more kids to sweatshop duty.