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"Steve Lane yahoo.co.uk>" <stevenrobertlane@<nospamplease> wrote:
> Whenever I see a race of ball bearings I always think their should be
> somthing
> inbetween them going the other way, to stop the two surfaces rubbing
> together,
> but then you'd need somthing to support it, which whould introduce
> friction,
> which defeats the object.
You're talking about caged bearings. Caged bearings do have a higher
coefficent of friction over non-caged bearings, but the friction is constant
(in a normal bearing, the balls come into contact intermitently), the life
is extended significantly, but the biggest advantage is an extreme reduction
in noise. We switched to caged bearings on all our robots and now that
we're doing super high speed stuff there is absolutely no noise from the
bearings now - only the servomotors/gearboxes.
Iain
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| (...) This is exactly the picture I had in my head when I imagined what a recirculating ballbearing system would be like. It resembles a caterpiller track. Whenever I see a race of ball bearings I always think their should be somthing inbetween them (...) (20 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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