Anybody want to go for a ride???

[Brian Rupnow]

This is what I've been busting my butt designing this week.--Nahh---It isn't a hovercraft!!! I just haven't got to the wheels yet. Better this week than last week. Last week it was curved windshield assembly fixtures, which involved far too many compound angles.---It gets really nutso when you design something that is so complex that there is no way to draw it---the math data goes directly to the CNC Gods for fabrication. At least on something like this the angles are generally in only one plane.

 

[mklotz]

Is that thing sticking out the back the key to wind it?

 

[Brian Rupnow]

Welll-----Actually, Marv, its got a neat little powerwheel down in there driven by a 10 HP electric DC motor. That "thing" functions as the steering tiller, the speed control, and the brake.

 

[tel]

Erm .... 'ate to burst yer bubble Brian, but they've already been designed - Crown make 'em.

 

[Brian Rupnow]

Erm .... 'ate to burst yer bubble Brian, but they've already been designed - Crown make 'em.

Tel---One of the strange things about what I do---Probably 90 percent of what I do has been designed before!!! By different people, in different places, for different loads, and different speeds and different needs----You get the picture. This one will be nickel plated and end up on an oil rig in Maylasia. In 45 years of designing machinery, very little of what I've done is completely unique. The guys who DID design something totally unique, marketed it properly, and got out at the right time are all living in Tonga with hot and cold running maids.

 

[lathe nut]

I like that Brain, could use on my shop but don't think that I was trust my wife to operate the handle, might put me through the roof, neat thanks for the peak, Lathe Nut