now you need to make the bearing have a sleeve that’s less hard than the material it’s being fitted in so you have a engineered wear point that can be easily replaced

Stainless steel dowel pins would be a great option for the rollers, might improve performance and longevity of a printed bearing. They are available in various sizes and can be sourced online from suppliers like McMaster-Carr.

that is innovation! i love it!

Awesome

I'm shocked these bearings didn't completely disintegrate.

my dumbass thought you were gonna just print a single line of filament straight up

Bearings are cheap and work so good. This is working backwards for me.

I love it! Exploring new passions is always fun, and sometimes during the journey we find our new obsession that we keep coming back too. I hope you have lots of success! Looks like you both are already doing great as is

Love this kind of innovation! I just stumbled onto this video and your channel. Consider me subscribed

Fill it with vaseline as your bearing grease

I recently made a pretty good ball bearing using a V style track and 6mm plastic bbs since I happen to have an entire bucket of them.

Ok but did you figure in the possibility of melting from the friction and pressure

I'll never understand the obsession makers have with printing bearings. Just buy the damn bearings. Bearings are cheap!

that's actually awesome, good stuff

I am guessing that my work developing metal oxide to metal deposition 3D printing will be quite useful for this sort of project too ;) (2 experiments, one was red iron oxide *not the black hematite form* that I was able with nothing but it powdered onto a stone surface *for safety* and hand running my laser over it that is a 500mW 405nm laser, and it was able even with exposure to the air to deposit raw iron metal onto the stone, the other being TiO2 white pigment powder that I was able to break down into the blackish brown rutile crystals so the energy based fluxing I am working on should allow printing with both Titanium and aluminum metal from their oxides as a powder directly, (side stepping a ton of wasted energy and time involved in normal refining to get raw metal from the oxides and other raw minerals they start as) )) achieving full replicator status is the point of such work I am up to, so that printing even electronic components and magnetized material from raw unrefined or recycled materials as the starting source for every aspect (and more) of the replicator's needed components. The sort of thing that would remove the need to obtain any tech in space on the way to another star, since you cant just pull over to a local petrol or gas station nor walmart or woolworths on the way to alpha centauri LOL (I still dont understand why this is not Elons primary focus as opposed to rockets, still being manufactured the old fashioned way that Tory Bruno's company is already competently managing with and then work with them to massively increase the output of the company , while improving their capabilities beyond anything currently in use, Especially since every aspect of achieving this in my own road map to completion is already proven tech being used in industry and manufacturing of one sort or another, that just most of the time has not been able to bridge across the various disciplines out there.

Nice. I think grease might be too tick for it. But the dry lub used for thread mils might help too. That's a nice smart design. Well done

Awesome. Could you plc reupload the stl Files?

Hey Sean 🤙🏻

3 D printers are close as being star Trax "S FOOD MACHINE.

Could you put the free bearing design's shortcut in your description? Thanks for your videos!

Definately useful, subscribed because you shared stls!

You just invented a bearing cap on a universal joint on a cars drive shaft! Good job!

Putting them in a go-kart is an amazing idea for stress-testing!

Cool

what about using nails as rollers?

Something to experiment with is to add extremely fine grit polishing compound inside, running it with the electrical drill, and then washing out the grit.

Make a self greasing one that holds its grease.

any updates on orders from September? emailed a few times and haven't heard back

didn't you know there's 2.8mm filament???

Absolutely useless. Use real bearings that last

Do you also lubricate it, with an inert substance like graphite powder, or lithium grease?

there is a reason why bearing manufacturers don't make them out of plastic. i think you will find out after a few usages why that is.

Is this mount still available?

When i eventually get back into printing ESP32CAM mini tanks, i will definitely give filament roller bearing a try.

why is it every person that obtains a 3D printer feels the need to reinvent the wheel in stupid pointless and wasteful ways?

Awesome! 👍

That's a great idea!

If you cut the filament lightly then bend it, it snaps straight or go to a weedwhacker lawn mower store and get a string cutter, you bend and insert weedeater string and it cuts it so easy, theyll give them away if they arent less than 5 bucks

That looks sick! Is the file available?

Do you have a laser cutter? You could cut 10 or 12 mil black acrylic sheet. then a printed case. 👌

Plastic on plastic will just melt with friction

I have a wheelbarrow, there are plastic bushings holding a metal rod inside the wheel. And guess what, need these bushings only? No, you need to buy the entire wheel assembly. These bearings may help, thanks!

Just broke my FX3 handle. Replacement is expensive:( I believe Ill cage the new one in this

small bearings are super cheap still pretty cool to make something like that

stl?

Talk about using your noodle

Powdered graphite, used for keyed lock lubricant, would reduce most friction. I'd think that'd add to the durability of the bearing

Teardowns of the bearings and inspection after x hours of forces applied would be nice to track breakdowns of the limits of each bearing design to ensure forward progress with each iteration

Can i have the stl please?

I would have never thought of that, instead of seeing to print perfectly circular pieces, just use pieces of filament, brilliant.