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This isn't a #Caturday post, I swear, he's just there for scale.

I'm trying to figure out a mount for this vertical wind spinner and figured there might be people with opinions on this. I printed a slightly larger VAWT (vertical axis wind turbine) and would like to experiment with hooking a small generator to see how much it produces. We've had a slightly smaller spinner for a few years that is almost always spinning and has held up really well, but it's not well suited for adding gears and gen. The old one has bearing mounts on top and bottom. Been wondering if this new one could use a thick base with two bearings instead. That seems like a lot of lateral torque under heavy winds though, which might cause gears to un-mesh or bearings to fail early.