{"id":31,"date":"2009-10-16T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T01:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2009-12-04T23:59:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T04:59:51","slug":"bearing-friction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/bearing-friction\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearing friction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like NI will be able to loan me a sbRIO to control the system.\u00a0 The form factor doesn\u2019t fit into my design quite as well, but internally it is identical to a cRIO.\u00a0 I really can\u2019t complain if they loan it to me for free&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bearing kit arrived today.\u00a0 I put it all together but the slide units have a lot more friction than I expected.\u00a0 After looking closely at them, I realized there is a rubber seal on each end of the bearing that rubs against the shaft.\u00a0 I decided that for my use case I don\u2019t need the seals.\u00a0 I tried to remove the seals, when I discovered the seal has a metal washer inside it for strength.\u00a0 I ended up just scraping off the sealing edge with a razor knife.\u00a0 The slide unit moves much, much easier now.\u00a0 If removing the seal was a bad idea, I always have a spare slide unit that still has the seals intact.<\/p>\n<p>Motor arrived today.\u00a0 It looks pretty good.\u00a0 The only problem I see is that the motor wiring kit came with a one foot cable, and I need about 4 feet.\u00a0 I will have to find a new cable somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like NI will be able to loan me a sbRIO to control the system.\u00a0 The form factor doesn\u2019t fit into my design quite as well, but internally it is identical to a cRIO.\u00a0 I really can\u2019t complain if they loan it to me for free&#8230; Bearing kit arrived today.\u00a0 I put it all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}