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Gimbal and bearings


Alexandre Lucena

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Hi Alexandre!!

I live in a neigbourhood near downtown.

Even dough I work every weekend on the transmissions of football matchs, I´m not a big fan of any team.

 

Regarding your gimbal, I don´t think is necesary to have bearings in both sides. This could be just a redundancy( did you visited the hbsboard.com site?).

 

Check out the steady rig site and check out the bearings in the pin of their arm.

 

Suerte rapaz!!

Agora vou embora ouvendo os paralamas do suceso, chao...

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I would suggest that however you build it, also include a variable clamping setup that allows you to "dial in" the amount of free movement available at a given time. Not everyone likes the frictionless feel at this pivot point, so it's good to be able to adjust it to taste. Also when doing vehicle work or other situations where the arm may not be hanging level (probably more often the case with homebuilds!), this pivot might cause more trouble than it's worth. Note that it's not a necessity for the stability of the photography (unlike the other bearings in use around the gimbal and arm) but is useful for adjusting the position of the gimbal while operating to get a better view of the monitor, etc. It may provide a little bit of improvement in isolation but it would be hard to see the difference in the final photography.

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