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General stuff / Re: twofer

« on: July 27, 2020, 07:00:51 pm »

so there is a mystery force of opposition that I did not know about.
This force is seeming to be interesting and so I am building a few test-beds to do the same kind of thing but in different modalities to see if I can figure out how to use this force of opposition.

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General stuff / Re: mechanical gain device

« on: August 05, 2018, 09:32:15 pm »

Long story short,,,,

I assembled the parts that I printed for a test-fit to check my design and decided that I needed to use bearings in places that I had not placed any, I at first thought that plastic on metal would be acceptable for the first testbed, but I do not think it would allow for much run-time so I have added bearings.

In doing so some of the clearances I was using were not sufficient so I then needed to redesign the parts, not that big of a deal but one part in particular took me a week to get just right,, I hope.

My printer has failed several times now, first the Y carriage linear bearings and then those smooth rails, then the X rails and bearings,, well I guess I overworked the printer and am now rebuilding the printer with a few changes.  I hope to be up and printing again in a few days.

Good news is that the first test-fit and motions worked just like they were supposed to so I am assuming that the re-designed parts will do the same.

When all is said and done I will have a full set of .stl's for a build and a list of parts used so any one that I share them with could reproduce the unit.