The idea with the modified ankles isn't that bad. But i haven't done the drawing for my CNC Buddy yet.
I made another drawing for him concerning the shoulder hubs support area. If you have the Standard Ali shoulder hubs, there is no was to get them fixed the right way.
My Idea is as simple as effective; a cnc'ed ring in Ali and optional in Steel.
The Steel Ring will be welded into the outer Leg Sheet, the Ali version is getting some M4 threads.
Drawing is done and sent to the CNC Shop Guy.
The parts are here. Together with a small bunch of spare parts, that my CNC Shop Buddy made for me one year ago...
...last night i had a dream about how to build a better outer ankle support for the ball bearings and wiring for the drives in the outer ankles...
it will be a mixture of steel sheets and a cnc´ed part. later today i will make a sketch and send it to my buddy at the cnc shop to see what he can do...
so more news on that in a later post here on this blog...
some adays ago i made a new order for some sheets...
Pic will follow
with these sheets i can build, together with the remains of sheets i had on stock, another center ankle.
and the rest of the sheets are for a set of new outer ankles.
i found the time, to weld a new center ankle in steel...i had some sheets on stock to realize at least one ankle...
pic will follow
After some good results on the second set of printed parts for the Han Solo blaster, i decided to print Poe Dameron's Blaster.
I changed the settings for a 10% longer printing time. The final result was worth the waiting...
Here at the beginning of the print:
And here after it was finished:
The assembled Blaster:
i found the printing files on thingiverse and started the print...
here right at the beginning of the printing process:
and at the end...
this took almost a full day to print!
now it´s time to assemble the parts. but nothing fits. every part had to be grinded...
but in the end i won the race!
...is thid set of battery boxes i made from mild steel.
now some mediablasting and a coat of light grey primer...
another set of steel battery boxes have to be done...
here the lasercut sheets:
why lightweight? well, i can work way more efficient concerning the time it take to complete a set.
there is no construction, on which i bend the roundings of the battery boxes. this is all done free hand. so if i use thicker material, it is very hard to get the right shape in a short time. good for my muscles (call me arnold schwarzenegger), bad for the time consuming building process.
and on the other hand a light droid is better than a heavy droid...😉
the postman always rings thrice...
i got all the parts, to get a set of steel ankles finished now.
hollow screws, nuts and ball bearings, all in metric dimensions.
a new bunch of aluminum body to leg hubs is to be produced very soon.
my cnc buddy will make a bunch of sets. here is a pic of the last sets...
