Wow, sorry guys,
I didn't acknowledge your kind compliments a few days ago, when all these were made,
usually I like to wait until I have another installment, before I respond to the replies given, so as to not put my thread back at the top of the list without a progress report, but when I happened to see my thread on page 1 again, I thought I better open this up, and wow, all these kind replikes, I thought I better acknowledge these even though I don't have any progress installments at the moment.
So first,
THANKYOU everyone, for the nice inputs, that gives me an incentive to keep up with this project to the finish.
Kel,
Thankyou for the nice compliment.
I was using 3in1 oil for the demonstration, since I have no seals anywhere I do get air in the lines after awhile of use, however surprisingly, have not seen any significant leaks, after sitting on the bench for a week.
The air gets into the lines when I drive the actuators, past the model cylinders piston throw, and the oil has to go somewhere so out the cylinders.
Hopefully when I get a joystick made, I can controle better the amount of pressure on the actuators.
Thankyou, everyone for the encouraging compliments.
It is compliments like that that help keep us going on with our projects.
Thankyou,
Kel, Carl, Ron, Kevin, Randy, Tom, Mike, Jeroen.
And anyone I may have missed.
I, have been working on making some tool holders for my lathe, to get a small break away from this main project, since it is mostly all probably balsawood model making now, so I need to step back and take a small breather to think through how to build the rest of this, so in the meanwhile, I've been working on tooling projects.
Eventually, I am going to convert my micromill from gear driven, to belt pulley driven, because the gear bushings are becoming a bother to keep on repairing, so either I will buy the kit from littlemachineshop. or fabricate my own.
As well as keeping up with the build on this model too.
Until then thanks again guys,
I will be posting more on this as it progresses again, just a small delay for the moment.
Have fun in the shop...