On Tuesday 30 March 2021 00:25:59 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > Use a ball cage that snaps in. I designed an example that uses 12 > steel BBs. > > https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1769802 > Bearings are made with the parts sized so that when the inner race is > shifted as far to one side as it can, the gap on the opposite side is > just wide enough to insert the balls. When as many balls as can be are > put in, the balls are distributed around as the inner race is moved to > the center. Then either a one piece plastic cage is snapped in from > one side or a two piece metal cage is riveted or spot welded between > the balls. > Great idea, I downloaded it, but its not in an editable src form so it could be parametized to make any size. .stl's are not easily editable. Something from something like openscad would be much more usefull.
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