The Spindle That Vibrated at Full Speed We built a rotary axis for a dispensing station. A stepper motor drove a spindle through a belt. The spindle used two deep groove ball bearings. At low speed, it was fine. At 3,000 RPM (the dispensing speed), it vibrated. The dispensing bead was uneven. The problem: the …

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