3d printed thrust bearing

[Janger]

I printed this thrust bearing, a 2326, 50 mm OD, entirely out of plastic. Plastic races, plastic roller bearings, and a snap fit top race. See youtube below, and it's on thingiverse. I also printed it at 50% size or 25mm OD. It's interesting and will work for light load lazy susan type requirements. Or prototyping till your bearings show up in the mail. I'm going to try scaling 37.5mm OD next.

 

[PeterT]

That's cool. Have you printed much for integral assemblies? An example would be plain roller bearing where the balls are already position in the races. I'm curious if they model them as an assembly maybe even with a defined tolerance gap knowing the 3DP is limited to its nozzle resolution... and somehow it magically prints? I've seen things like ball & socket jointed desk gnomes or like snakes where (I assume) they build little micro bridges between the parts. So when its off the printer you kind of give them a 'come to life crackle' (break the bridges & they they move but the joints remain intact.

 

[Janger]

That's cool. Have you printed much for integral assemblies? An example would be plain roller bearing where the balls are already position in the races. I'm curious if they model them as an assembly maybe even with a defined tolerance gap knowing the 3DP is limited to its nozzle resolution... and somehow it magically prints? I've seen things like ball & socket jointed desk gnomes or like snakes where (I assume) they build little micro bridges between the parts. So when its off the printer you kind of give them a 'come to life crackle' (break the bridges & they they move but the joints remain intact.

I've only done this once or twice with models from other people. I'd like to know about any plain printable roller bearing models which are good, integral assembly or not.

 

[Doggggboy]

I had no idea Tinkercad could do that.

 

[Janger]

I had no idea Tinkercad could do that.

I am using Fusion 360. I don't know about Tinkercad but this seems pretty straightforward. For this model I just downloaded it.

here-> https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6899986