Hello
I believe the ball bearings’ direction in the assembly instructions for the Scout are wrong.
The flange is pointing towards the screw head in the instructions when it should in fact point to the other side.
Can you confirm this?
Yours
storm
in some assembles it makes it easier to construct having the bb facing out. eg
This is what you mean>? here it then allows some of the legs hip to be assembled and then it can be added by clipping it round the servo horn and Ball Baring.
Check out Leg assembly instruction step 4, figure 4-1. the flange points to the left while it should point to the right.
The first hip servos are the only ones which are correct in the assembly guide.
no. this step is correct. if done the other way the bracket will just fall off. it allows you to make the assembly up without needing to install the servo at the same time.
eg:
if like this then you can slip the c bracket onto it. but it will slip off in till the servos is installed.
so it would need to be like this:
now it can be constructed before the servos need to be added. 
i hope that made sense.
yes but if you mount the servo it will pull the BB out of the c-bracket and make the c-bracket have direct contact to the multipurpose bracket.
You can actually see it in figure 11-2. Flange pointing towards multipurpose bracket, not c-bracket.
Edit: maybe it works this way if you bend the c-bracket so it pushes towards the flange when the servo is mounted. I actually built the whole bot like it said in instructions and when I placed the servos it pulled the c-bracket away from the flange (up to the point where the BB wasn’t seated in the c-bracket anymore)
Also, being able to assemble parts before servos is pointless in my opinion. I almost broke my fingers trying to hold everything together while mounting the BB. It went much easier after I changed it around and I actually think its mechanically better this way. Just try it and press the wings of the c-bracket together a little bit. The BB will snap out of it’s seat. Can’t happen if you point the flange inside.
i would say assemble it how you feel best.
Sure sure, don’t get me wrong, no hard feelings
I think my problem was that the wings of my c-brackets were bent together a bit. If not it would have probably worked like a charm.
Thanks for the answers
storm
great. look forward to seeing your project.
The assembly guide instructions primarily tell you to install the bearing with the flange on the outside “capturing” the “C” bracket. There are a few places where we intentionally mount the bearing with the flange on the inside, to make a certain assembly easier to build. There are of course manufacturing tolerances to take into account. We do encourage experimentation with the end result, hopefully, being a nice sturdy mechanical assembly.
Oh, it’s very stable now 
Packaging was nice, too. Also, unlike Ikea kits there are spare screws
Built quality of the aluminum parts is very good, no sharp edges, flawless eloxation. The only thing that looks better on pictures than in real are the lexan parts. They were only painted on one side and the paint looks very uneven. I don’t know if this is maybe a manufacturing problem, but I don’t really care cause I’ll probably paint them in custom color anyways.
So thank you for making those great kits
storm
Er. Paint? Are you perhaps talking about the protective plastic covering that you need to peel off, as described in this guide? lynxmotion.com/images/html/infolexa.htm
The lexan parts are not painted, and look quite nice once you take the protective covering off.
I actually read that guide, but couldn’t find any protective cover.
Good call tho, maybe the covering sticks so good to the parts I mistakenly thought it’s paint, I’ll check again, thanks. 