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Re: pic: Team 125 sideplate close-up

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Originally Posted by Woody1458 View Post
Hey Iw as just wondering because you guys have obviously done it well, how do you mount bearings? Our team is having a lot of problems with them falling out, we tried hammering them in to barely too small holes but that would only last about a day, and epoxy cant take the stress.
As others have said, flanges are definately the way to go, every bearing on our robot has a flange on it, it really makes things great to assemble and to dissasemble, and of course, for functionality.

With flanged bearings, pressfitting is almost always not necessary.
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