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Re: pic: Anyone doing this?
First con that comes to mind is weight. Conveyor belts give the same, possibly better, functionality with less rollers, bearing, chain, etc.
I'm sure for some teams this design may be more feasible to fabricate, lathing out groves in pipe for round belting is a bit of a challenge... 
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29-01-2009, 09:22
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Re: pic: Anyone doing this?
Yeah we were thinking about the same design. Were not positive what were doing yet, the drawing looks great.
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29-01-2009, 09:28
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Re: pic: Anyone doing this?
We originally tried a variant of this with a twist - the rollers would be spin at increasing rates to accelerate the balls. It was a cute idea, but never produced a fully working prototype since we decided that a) it would be heavy, and b) more moving parts = more likely to fail.
Good luck!
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