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Printable monolithic flexure bearing
rotational flexure bearing that can be printed in one piece
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Description
3d printed rotational flexure bearing. This can be printed without support and allows 60 degrees of motion with PLA+, Even more with different materials.
3 versions are included, a printable one with no support, one that is more compact but requires support and a multimaterial amf if you want to print the splines in a different material than the shell.
Demonstration video
Materials and methods
Print in one piece without support, Performance PLA can give about 60 degrees of motion but other filament or tuning the settings can give more or less.
Inexpensive PLA will not work and will crack. Tested with Polymaker PolyLite and Hatchbox PLA-Pro and both work well.
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Stamos added this to the Interesting Designs collection ago
Stephen Wood added this to the 3D Printer Parts collection ago
John Meacham published this design ago