To Be-aring or not to be-aring?

[El Zilcho]

I knew that catchy title would grab your attention, ha.

Anyways, I have an Intelliframe on the way and plan on replacing the trigger, I have seen a few different custom triggers that I like, some have bearings, others do not. Is there a big benefit to having a trigger with a bearing? I feel like from what I have read, it removes side to side slop but that was about it. So, what do you think?

[knownothingmags]

I knew that catchy title would grab your attention, ha.

Anyways, I have an Intelliframe on the way and plan on replacing the trigger, I have seen a few different custom triggers that I like, some have bearings, others do not. Is there a big benefit to having a trigger with a bearing? I feel like from what I have read, it removes side to side slop but that was about it. So, what do you think?

nothing its a fad.

brearings that come with these are not ceramic and teflon sealed. so they have more of a chance to fail after repeat use.

i only say thins because i am very familar with bearing in my RC stuff.

alot of people will post up and say that they have never had an issue which is true.

just mostly a fad thing. somone got the bright idea to do it now alot of people like it.

[Spider-TW]

Trigger bearings are nice to have on electros and pneumags where you want to shorten the trigger stroke down to nothing. You usually keep those setups clean and well maintained anyway, so you don't loose much reliability for the kind of play they get. You can't shim those setups very tight with a plain pivot pin (because of the friction), so a bearing usually makes it more precise while still moving freely.

That assumes you want a really short stroke. Anywhere else is not worth the trouble for me.