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  • Oct 19, 2026, 9:25 AM

    @quixoticgeek the gear is 20cm, which means that 7mm of runout at the edge of the gear is about 4 degrees off axis. the two bearings are 20mm apart, so I think that only requires 0.7mm misalignment (by similar triangles). The layer shift appears to be about 0.5mm of skew, so it's in the ballpark (plus I had to use a threaded rod rather than the actual 8mm axle, which adds at least 1mm of wobble).

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  • Quixoticgeekquixoticgeek@v.st
    Oct 19, 2026, 9:31 AM

    @th ah that would do it. Go up a bearing size, and bore out the center to fix the concentricity?

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  • Oct 19, 2026, 9:34 AM

    @quixoticgeek just two problems: t a) I can't swing a 20cm gear on my tiny lathe's 50mm chuck and b) does boring 3d printed filament even work?

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  • Quixoticgeekquixoticgeek@v.st
    Oct 19, 2026, 9:40 AM

    @th clearly you need a bigger lathe... And yes.

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