Hummina Shadeeba
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torqueboards said:My mounts do fit your motors
Yea but I remember at first you told me they wouldn't! Later you said they would.
torqueboards said:My mounts do fit your motors
Hummina Shadeeba said:PLA works great for investment casting!
I've got a guy who teaches at the crucible here in Oakland who is going to do me two truck hangers with motor mounts I designed..in aluminum or possibly bronze. YouTube has a video of someone even using their microwave to melt the aluminum using some kinda shield for the aluminum so it doesn't get hit directly with microwaves. I might do it in bronze though, seeing how hard it'll be for me to get the aluminum heat treated. He's going to do it with the axle in so high heat the steel axle so the two metals have a similar shrink happening and not as likely to crack. But I've seen skate companies do it that way and it looks like they don't even heat the axle so should be ok
The teacher is excited about how PLA can revolutionize investment casting. Before making the pattern which then forms the mold was an arduous time consuming process but with printed pla...it's even environmentally pretty good. Carbon(soot) and co2
printing is great but design programs suck I quickly decided. I designed the pattern to be printed in clay and then scanned it. This way you can use shapes that aren't so machined looking and more organic. Next I want to make a hanger/mount out of my credit card and little erasers and stuff from the Japanese store
. If torque had had a plate that fit my motor 6 months ago I would've been long done here and saved a ton. But I didn't like any of the sold mounts much anyway and then get obsessed with trying the in the hub motor mount. Now that it's collapsing on itself I'm onto this. I like this. I'll make a couple and see if anyone wants one. Or maybe you could send me your printed pattern
I thought only nasa had that print in metal tech. Didn't know it was commercially available yet. Nice.
brent said:Finally found a model of a 42t HTD5 pulley from Vex Pro: do you still want a 42t version of my insert? Sorry for the lateness, it's been a bit of a rough week.
Svenska said:People where asking for Solidworks models. Here is a customizable Abec11 wheel mount I made up. Similar to Voodoojars, with some tweaks.
No here isn't a file. Damn you forum!
Wheel_Insert.SLDPRT => The extension sldprt is not allowed.
How can I get around that?
By sticking them in a .zip!
You find the wheel adapter in it as well as 2 different motor mounts. The "slim" one is meant for casting.
Edit: Getting files up...
Svenska said:@ bandaro
mine are a very tight fit for the original ABEC11 flywheels in 83mm. By looking at pictures I think all of the flywheels got the same core. I got the Solidworks files in a post a bit further up.
bandaro said:The models he posted just seem to have a straight chamfer on them to fit the wheel, so it looks like they will fit, but might have issues with the fit/flex under power due to the small surface area and the movement it allows. I will be using a 48t pulley as well, so while I am fine modelling that up, just wondering how far it will need to be offset from the current pulley base if at all. I am assuming none, but just wanting to be sure before I send it off to be sls printed. The sls nylon should be stronger than what you guys use (sla printed abs, correct?)