Hold the Torches
I didn't get to do torch work with my friend. Not yet, anyway. They called in sick that night, and I started feeling pretty rotten shortly after. Last night they were back in their shop doing settings, so I'm hoping we can get together to do rings later.
I took some time to clean out my own shop over the weekend. My material storage area has been an absolute disaster for over a year. I feel like such a hypocrite when I tell people how important it is to keep your shop clean, organized, and ready for action, when areas of my own shop look like the results of urban saturation bombing. But no more! Everything's sorted, everything's organized, and I found out I had way more Delrin and Perspex than I thought I did. I also have more Nylon than I ever care to use. The stuff is horrid to cut.
I feel pretty good about the Delrin. One of the people at work did some destructive testing on Delrin acting as a thrust bearing with a stainless rotator. It took enormous loads (upwards of 100 PSI at 240 RPM) to put it into a regime where it underwent permanent damage. In this case the Delrin melted into a blob. So now in addition to being an absolute joy to work with, I also have second-hand empirical evidence that its bearing properties are highly respectable.
Which brings me to another project I now have no excuse not to do: For years I've been wanting to put a camera up on a kite and take pictures. No, scratch that. I want to put a camera up on an articulated mount on a kite. Scratch that. I want to put up a highly adaptable articulated camera mount... no... You can see how the project has taken on a life of its own.
I have a 6-channel RC transmitter and receiver, and four servos. I have the necessary gears to build gear trains to get true 90 degree rotation out of each axis (except for the azimuthal axis, which should give me 360). I have cameras. I have a shop. Now that I know I can make all the bushings out of Delrin, the one thing I don't have is an excuse. I can build it. Now I just need to design it.
So once again the number of projects in my shop outstrips the amount of free time I have. And with the projects going on at work, keeping everything straight is getting tough.
I really do hope I can help my friend with those rings. That'd be a nice break from all the stuff going on in my own shop.
-- Pencil
I took some time to clean out my own shop over the weekend. My material storage area has been an absolute disaster for over a year. I feel like such a hypocrite when I tell people how important it is to keep your shop clean, organized, and ready for action, when areas of my own shop look like the results of urban saturation bombing. But no more! Everything's sorted, everything's organized, and I found out I had way more Delrin and Perspex than I thought I did. I also have more Nylon than I ever care to use. The stuff is horrid to cut.
I feel pretty good about the Delrin. One of the people at work did some destructive testing on Delrin acting as a thrust bearing with a stainless rotator. It took enormous loads (upwards of 100 PSI at 240 RPM) to put it into a regime where it underwent permanent damage. In this case the Delrin melted into a blob. So now in addition to being an absolute joy to work with, I also have second-hand empirical evidence that its bearing properties are highly respectable.
Which brings me to another project I now have no excuse not to do: For years I've been wanting to put a camera up on a kite and take pictures. No, scratch that. I want to put a camera up on an articulated mount on a kite. Scratch that. I want to put up a highly adaptable articulated camera mount... no... You can see how the project has taken on a life of its own.
I have a 6-channel RC transmitter and receiver, and four servos. I have the necessary gears to build gear trains to get true 90 degree rotation out of each axis (except for the azimuthal axis, which should give me 360). I have cameras. I have a shop. Now that I know I can make all the bushings out of Delrin, the one thing I don't have is an excuse. I can build it. Now I just need to design it.
So once again the number of projects in my shop outstrips the amount of free time I have. And with the projects going on at work, keeping everything straight is getting tough.
I really do hope I can help my friend with those rings. That'd be a nice break from all the stuff going on in my own shop.
-- Pencil
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