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RE: Ahem, onwards to rtl16, thank you
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Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:37:38 GMT
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Iain,
I sense deep frustration in this post.
> At least with LEGO, you just add another RCX if you run out of ports. It's not
> like you have to fight with Electrical to drop in another I/O card. "WAAA, then
> we can't use a standard panel, WAAAAA."
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> "Where will I put the brake resistors then? WAAAAAA."
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> "We can't use door mounted disconnects because we can't drill holes straight to
> mount them. WAAAAA."
Why not call them a WAAAAmbulace. Or get them some (cheese or cork) to go with
that whine.
> Stupid electrical department.
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> I am obsessed with rotary index machines/high speed rotary assembly automation.
> So gorgeous. I wish someone would come up with a very solid, accurate,
> geneva-based indexing drive out of LEGO. No more of this backlash crap. I can
> build a 6-position carousel on a turntable, but the accuracy isn't there with a
> ring-gear based drive. Gotta use a shotpin or some junk. Anoher I/O gone.
You would have LOVED to see the machine my Dad and this other German toolmaker
designed. It took in as raw materials:
Gold strip stock which was drawn into a seamed tube shape and then coiled
Ultra fine spring steel which was wound into a spring
Gold wire stock which was made into small rings
Gold wire stock which was formed into a "plunger"
The machine made spring-rings - the little clasps on gold chains that
are so damned hard to open and close, and it made them fully automatically
on demand.
In other words. This thing was all cam driven, with 4 axles going all round
the machine and something like 140 cams. There was a nice 6, or was it 8 position
geneva mechanism for holding the spring ring tube as the little ring was
soldered on, the spring was inserted, and the plunger inserted after.
It was unbe;lievably complicated, and when it worked, it crancked out 30 to
40 spring rings a minute, dpending on moon phase.
Man, THAT was toolmking.
> Iain
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> PS ENGEL is stupid right now and I hate them.
SO what do you expect from German toolmakers. If you're asking them to change their
machine, you are doing something wrong! :-)
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| (...) : shiver : The thought of having to machine parts that are small enough to handle THOSE parts make me want to hide. That's frightening. (...) I expect their damn sales team to send me the right .DXF drawing when I ask for an 85VHRB with LIGHT (...) (21 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) At least with LEGO, you just add another RCX if you run out of ports. It's not like you have to fight with Electrical to drop in another I/O card. "WAAA, then we can't use a standard panel, WAAAAA." "Where will I put the brake resistors then? (...) (21 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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