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Re: 2264 dual fp lift gearbox.

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Originally Posted by vivek16 View Post
The sides are garage rail. They were donated to the team and were quite effective.

Thanks, The side plates were waterjet (the bearing holes were put in manually) and the gears were from AM. I did spend a couple of months designing this thing. If we were to pull this off during build season, the process would have to be expedited tenfold for it to be done on time. It was a really good learning experience though.

thanks, Vivek
From what it sounds like/looks like you machined out the holes for the bearings and used a couple that didn't have flanges on them.

Our team for numerous years...just so you know for an option, has waterjetted out plates and just reamed out the holes, even the bearing holes and it's always been fine, we've never had a gearbox fail.

Also, flanged bearings everyhwere can really make something easier to assemble, and to dissasemble.

Just some thoughts that might be helpful later.
It looks like a really nice design, very good drawing, and just a plain pretty piece.
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