Linear Bearing

thingiverse

This was inspired by jamesstaylor's Linear Bearing:http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4311 Since I do not own Inventor, I could not open his files so that use some of his dimensions so I used my own dimensions and made some improvements of my own to the design. I first removed two of the 6 bearings that I seen other people use on Thingiverse for their linear bearings. I did this change because it is still stable so it will not wobble and because it uses less parts. Second, I made the linear bearings use 608 bearings because they are common and easy to obtain. Third, I made rod that the bearing can be used on a M8 so people can use it on 3D printers like RepRaps. Since I wanted to use it on M8 and have 608 bearings, I found that I did not have that much room to work with so I sank in the M8 nuts so that there was no interference. I decided not to remove the wall around the bolt because I did not want the bearings to hang and wobble. Post in the comments if you want me to modify it so it uses a different bearing type or different rod size. I also do not have a 3d printer so I could not test it out but send me pictures of it working and I will post it. Todo: Put washer between bolt and bearing wall Make it adjustable to account for rod tolerance error