![]() 05/07/2019 at 20:22 • Filed to: Industrial Design, DIY | ![]() | ![]() |
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sheep, they’ll turn into a wool & yarn handling equipment builder... ( Also a good excuse to play with the 3D printer)
![]() 05/07/2019 at 20:34 |
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Neat! I can only see the carder because Instagram embeds hardly ever work. Which parts of that are 3D-printed?
![]() 05/07/2019 at 21:16 |
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ah, the insta embed looks ok in my preview, but as we all know, “kinja”...
3D-printed bits on the carder: The dive and driven pulleys on the left side (with the green round belt) as well as the mount for the idler pulley (the idler pulley itself is a cheap commodity bearing roller). The housings for the e-stop switches and the (not shown in the video) housings for the direction control switch, and main power input/switch and fuse/junction housing.
Making the drums was fun... I initially paid some one with a lathe to make them, luckily I did not pay them very much, as it became immediately obvious that the tail-stock of their lathe was not square. they were completely unusable. So I then cut out circles of 1/2" MDF with a router and a circle jig, glued them together in a stack, and then used the drive motor and pulleys with a cobbled-together guide rail (made of 2x4 scraps and 1x2 furring) in order to true it up with the same router I had cut the circ les out to begin with. It worked very well :)
![]() 05/07/2019 at 22:24 |
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That's awesome.
![]() 05/07/2019 at 22:45 |
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Here’s the only photo I remembere d to take of my DIY rotary machining doh ickey... Before assembly of the guide rail for the router...
![]() 05/08/2019 at 20:55 |
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This makes me want to get out to the garage and make something. But before I can do that, I have to finish the front landscaping... (we’re redoing edging around the flower beds). And before I can finish that, I need to get some rebar to stake things down...