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Originally Posted by Ben Piecuch
It looks like you are machining your own wheels. If that's the case, why don't you just make a center wheel that is slightly bigger that the two outer ones. The speed of that wheel will be negligibly higher than the outer two, but it will allow you to have a standard pillow block in there, as opposed to the IGUS ones. This could make for a possibly more robust drive setup, as some teams had problems with those plastic IGUS bearings last year.
BEN
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This is actually something that I considered for a while, but one of my team's ME mentors talked me out of it. I can't figure out if it would be a problem or not. I probably need to test it out and see. If anyone has experience with this could you please help me out?
As for the IGUS bearings, they should be fine. They are not under too much load from the miter gears. We are using conventional ball bearings where there are higher loads.
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