Flange Bearing 40mm OD 14mm ID

Join the printsbyjayy discord server: https://discord.gg/X9VbhrDzzM This bearing was designed to help project builders by providing them with interchangeable mechanical part solutions for when they are on a budget and need to be able to just print their own bearing for simple / light load mechanisms and machines. OR if they just want to make a cool printed bearing. This HAS been printed and tested, I am just pretty bad at fancy picture taking. It is pretty tightly toleranced, at .1mm across all contact surfaces, and will work nicely if it is given a very light amount of light grease to provide lubrication between them. I do recommend Mobil XHP222 for this (because its blue and looks cool JK! it has a good viscosity and nice lifetime). With that being said I would also like to state I do NOT recommend a heavier, high temp grease (usually red). You will likely be able to see this in the performance of your mechanism. I am also including a basic mounting block with a depression of the bearing as the geometry is pretty unique, but I am also including a dimension sketch in the pictures, so you can download it and it can be reverse engineered to mock it up if you have a CAD software pretty easily. It is not print in place and will require some trivial amount of assembly to make it, but this makes it easier to reliably print it every time as opposed to some PIP models that fuse together mid print. This is done by cutting the outer race in half, putting the inner race in the middle and inserting the pins / spacers in place, and then putting the top half on and pinning it together with a printed pin. Bearings abolutely can be printed if they are designed rugged enough and printed down to a tight enough tolerance. The speed is lower than a normal bearing, but this will get the job done for machines that are designed to where they run relatively slow anyways and hence could have a lot of actual realistic applications. Mechanical Specifications Inner Hole Diameter 14mm Outer Bearing Diameter 40mm Flange Diameter 10mm (With 4 tangent lines between the 10mm and 40mm circles) Dist. between center point of flanges 50mm If you have any questions or would like to help us all collaborate on our projects, please consider coming to the Discord server and talk with us! We want to continue the core memory of the Reprap movement, one post at a time!