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Re: Slider design help?

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Originally Posted by vivek16 View Post
Fellow FIRSTers,

How would you get a sliding motion in the forklift segment attachments?

I was playing with that one track slider thing in the kit but that didn't seem too reliable. How would you achieve such a sliding motion reliably?

How would you use rollers (such as the pink ones found here link) to do it?

thanks, Vivek.
When 330 uses a lift, they like to use aluminum C-channel with delrin rollers attached to blocks, secured inside the ends. The roller at the top of one segment is placed so that the block it attaches to is a hard stop for the roller at the bottom of the next one over.
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