I would suggest that you calibrate the xy shrinkage, and z shrinkage in your 
printer slicer, instead of compensating for it in your design.




> On Mar 25, 2022, at 3:29 PM, gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Greetings all;
> 
> It has come to my attention that one of the potential failures in my 
> harmonic drive with a loose belt experimentation, which seems to be 
> caused by the unequal shrinkage in the xy direction as opposed to the z 
> direction is at least partially caused by the nozzle diameter. If I 
> attempt to achieve a zero clearance bearing simply by shrinking the dummy 
> ball from about .5mm bigger than the bearing, as it shrinks, the wider 
> edges of the bearing groove come into zero or a slight preload condition, 
> leading eventually to a race fatigue split at the center of the races 
> width. Working in openscad, a scale command would fix this by shrinking 
> the bb shape used for clearing that groove, only in the x direction.
> 
> Th question is how much would it take to transfer the majority of the 
> stresses on the race from being on the outer edges of the race, to be 
> more concentrated on the center of the race, with an eye toward reducing 
> the splitting force on the bearing race.
> 
> 1% x shrink, 2%, 3%, what would be the ideal amount of shrink to 
> compensate for the printers .4mm nozzle, being used to only lay .12mm per 
> layer?
> 
> Seems to me there ought to be a way to mathematically predict how much 
> that shrinkage diff there is. Attached, an extra 2 lines to draw that 
> away from the bearing itself, showing how little the difference is for a 
> .97 x shrink.
> 
> Comments plz?
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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