pic: Swerve module iteration 1

[nuclearnerd]

Originally Posted by Jared

This looks pretty cool. It's sort of similar to 696's swerve, which is one of the coolest I've seen in a long time. Their bearing setup works very nicely, but they had to do an incredible amount of machining to make the module frames.

http://2015blog.team696.org/wp-conte...1/IMG_0390.jpg

http://2015blog.team696.org/wp-conte...119_134125.jpg

http://2015blog.team696.org/wp-conte...118_212811.jpg

As awesome as that looks, I cringe when I see all those hardened steel ball bearings running on aluminum. Did you test these modules? Do you not see any pitting in the thrust bearing raceways because of the contact pressure?