X Axis Enhanced

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X Axis Enhanced

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This page collects a few ideas on how to enhance Mendel's X carriage.

Reduce the number of bearings

The current (August 2010) Mendel X carriage uses no less than 10 ball bearings to move it on two steel rods. This is over-constrained.

The idea is to reduce the number of bearings to make it equal-constrained. A quick sketch on how this could work with 7 bearings is shown here:

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File:7 bearing X carriage.stp

File:7 bearing X carriage.stl


Traumflug 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)