Bearings vs. Bushings in Gearboxes + All-Belt Gearbox?

[Colin Small]

Originally Posted by Joey Milia

would look into smaller bearings or just not have the whole bearing in the gear.

If the pulley your using is just the thickness of a vex hex bearings you're probably using belts that are to narrow.

I also don't understand why you need hex bearings or a hex broached bushing. Wouldn't having the bushing hex broached defeat the point of it spinning?

Thanks for the input!

I'll play around with sizes of pulleys and find something that works. It looks like I have room to run wider belts anyways.

And I might just be misunderstanding bushings, but the idea is that the pulley would rotate around the bushing rather than having the bushing rotate around the shaft