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Re: Video of Cable Shovel In Action
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lugnet.technic
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Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:47:38 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, danny staple orionrobots@gmail.com wrote:
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On 30/09/05, Benjamin Ventura generaldisarray2005@yahoo.com wrote:
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In lugnet.technic, danny staple orionrobots@gmail.com wrote:
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Works fine for me here too. It is impressive, but it is also one of
the noisiest things I have seen in a while. One or two of those motors
sound like they are a little stretched.
Maybe it is encoded with a newer codec?
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http://orionrobots.co.uk - Build Robots
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Most of the noise is coming from the ‘crowd’, the part that pushes the bucket
back and forth. It uses a bunch of 40, 24 and 8 tooth gears to do it’s
thing:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1401966
And they make a ton of noise, the gears. The motors there do not have
built-in
gear reduction, so i had to build my own transmission.
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Cool. Could you get less noise and a reduction in space using a worm
gear? I seem to remember them being less efficient, but they would
give good reduction, and should lower the noise considerably, although
they may require placing motors perpendicular to the output shafts.
Danny
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I probably could reduce bulk and noise by using worm gears, but at the time I
built that part of the machine I only owned two worms and I needed them in other
places. The ‘crowd’ has two motors and transmissions and I had already used one
worm gear in the bucket’s jaw..
However, I really like the noise. The machine is big, and the transmission
chattering helps give it an even “larger than life” feel. The hoist is even
better, it has four high-speed motors and transmissions inside of the house (the
red and white body part). Having all those motors and gears inside of a big
hollow space makes a really cool, deep noise that echos around inside and sounds
great. But you can’t hear that sound in the video, the upgraded hoist is new
and was in a different configuration at the time of the video’s filming.
On a different subject I have been starting a new project, a drilling rig. I
want to make something like this:
or an offshore oil drilling platform.
I really enjoy building models that are functional, so I want to make one that
can actually put holes in the ground and lay pipe. I have built a prototype
drilling attachment that I think will work, I will post pictures ASAP.
-Ben
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| (...) Ah - understandable. I actually stocked up on them from bricklink, as I so often found them useful. I admit - I tend to agree with you on the noise making it "larger than life". Any chance of videos of the upgraded hoist then? One other thing (...) (19 years ago, 1-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Cool. Could you get less noise and a reduction in space using a worm gear? I seem to remember them being less efficient, but they would give good reduction, and should lower the noise considerably, although they may require placing motors (...) (19 years ago, 30-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic)
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