README.md

# Fabricable Rotary Bearings

This is mostly a tracking page. The work is couple with [mkencoder](https://gitlab.cba.mit.edu/jakeread/mkencoder) but it perhaps should not be. 

Sam and I spent some time this afternoon chatting about slew roller bearings - I have been experimenting with designs by [Christoph Laimer](http://www.laimer.ch/)

![wb with sam](https://gitlab.cba.mit.edu/jakeread/mkslew/raw/master/images/whiteboard-with-sam.jpg)

The issue I am having with these slew bearings is that the rollers tend to want to track out of the race, which causes their edges to grind on the non-rotating side. 

Here's a [really interesting link to an explanation of how crowned pulleys self-right](https://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/crowned_pulleys.html). 

- stub