Hwy I am messing with this right now and it’s not fixed. I had a similar problem. If you hook an engine to both bearing it should work. If it doesn’t try swapping the direction of the bearings. Mine is always swap the direction of the front bearing facing your load

@@soundowl2650 ill try this ty

you have to connect the bearings while the creation is off the lift.

the bearings also have to be counter rotating

@@_Dynamation_ thank you man

you need to balance the joint to go fast, i have it on one of my cars and i can go as fast as the engine allows me

@_Dynamation_ yeah i already tried that. Didn't work.

rotate your whole creation

i just realized that survival runs on simple 8 physics, idk why but it breaks the whole joint. sorry

already have

well yes, but i really hated that the pipes would phase through each other so i came up with the is amalgamation lol. it’s not the best, but it could be better

Block and Part editor by Ben Bingo

@@_Dynamation_ thanks

alright, so I spent like the whole time experimenting with testing gears and u-joints, I found out that this particular set up will fail at 2500 torque, and by that I mean the mechanism collapses in on itself. I built a slightly larger one(by a block each axis) so that I could get the missing bearing in place for the u-joint, and then it wouldn't rotate so I needed an extra four bearings on the center part that rotates, and that allowed it to pull all the way to 6000, where it once again failed. I then just tried using 8 tooth gears, and they produced the most amount of load, probably close to ten times as much. that surprised me, I guess the bearings are the limitation here. I also tried adding four bearings to the center part of your one and it made it worse, so I wonder if there's a way to get mine to rotate without those center bearings, because I do think they were sapping away some torque. I'm gonna go to bed now.

yes, i just joined the community. Thanks!

kinda, but it really only helps with bottoming out

nice, mines a 144Hz monitor

it has tank steering

@@_Dynamation_ but doesn't look like a tank

this works because there are two bearings counter rotating, to then the controller is a angle limiter. and on the electric engine the bearings are also counter rotating but there's a parent and child problem going on that makes it as though its a free spinning bearing until you turn the engine off. you can also do this with a gas engine.

@@_Dynamation_ So if I'm understand you right, then the electric engine allowing the bearing to free spin is the game not knowing which part is actually attached, so it either free spins or stays rigid with on or off signals; and the controller does the same thing, but it stops at the set angle instead of free spinning continuously?

@@ShawnF6FHellcat no, not really. how the game works is it thinks the left pipe is the parent of the pipe on the right, but the pipe on the right is also parented to the one on the left, if you separate the two and have one bearing on one pipe on opposing sides, you'll see what's happening. the game thinks they are parented and childed to each other. separate the two bearings so there's on bearing on either side and and place blocks on them on a platform and you'll see that with a controller it limits the angles and with the electric engine it dree spins. ps. i don't really know how to describe how do things in text but i hope you understood what i mean.

@@_Dynamation_ I understand what you're saying, but I'm just having a hard time visualizing it without going into the game and testing it. You're description is fine, it's my lack of the technical knowledge that's causing confusion, which just means I need to spend some time in Scrap Mechanic. Thank you for explaining the concept to though, not many people go beyond just a tutorial, so I appreciate it!

i think i have

​@@_Dynamation_Can you give me the workshop ID?

Sure, here you go. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3161957323 steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3161957197

​@@_Dynamation_thanks

@@anatnasogaming no problem

haha

i have balanced the crankshaft off camera when i was getting the engine to run, and yes i have tried to use a block instead of the pipe but the video you see here was my second recording. so i just a bit lazy making the timing wheel

​@@_Dynamation_Alright, btw from where do you know zero width blocks?

@keinanderer9930 either from @Denis567 or @Icebound Glaceon

@@_Dynamation_ interesting

you can find it in the steam workshop