Pneumatic

Picture? Or is the pic Mario sent me the one that he made for you? I would love to use something like that! But again, I would have to get it pressure tested so that is a pain in the butt...

Actually, Mario! How much would you want to make me one of thems for? I want one like the first one that I made... L shape with the tanks on top of one another to save weight and space. Gauge on top so I can see it. bleed valve on the end by the cylinder. . . It would save me alot of weight and space to just get a custom part made me thinks + I can tap the holes to the correct size so I dont need to use thread adaptors which are a few oz per unit. If I can afford it ill just do it that way I guess...


~Chad

At the moment I cant make one, a broken left index finger is playing havok with my available working time
Also, the house needs a lot of attention.
And the running up to the UK championships .
I can look into it, the earliest in september.

DOH!!! Got a CAD of one that I can make myself?

Hope your finger gets better man... I hate when you hurt your hands!!!

~Chad

I made the Hannibalito collector just by messuring where everything needed to be, took the minimum wall thickness, and started drilling and milling.
I dont believe Ive a scetch around were the dimensions are noted.

Also, now the left hand is out , next month, probably, a heavy duty chirurgy will be undertaken in my right hand.

Well, I suppose I will just have to CAD my own. . . I will send you an E-mail about the thicknesss I will need to maintain... How the heck did you hurt your hand?

~Chad

Well, I will start to get my thread back now THANK YOU VERY MUCH! ;-) Anyhoo, I am getting back to work on the 30lb flipper. I am working with a friend, Bryan to CAD up the bot and do it right this time. Not all half ass like last time! But as is I will have about 7ish pounds left for the arm and armor. A picture is on the profile.... All waterjet and AL frame. The arm will be some sort of steel tube. Armor will probably end up being a sheet or two of paper :-)

hi chad,
id hate to offend, so please take this comment as just my personal opinion, not a critasism.

there are a lot of connections on the pneumatics. i wonder if moving the flipper pivot to the very back of the bot and putting the buffertank in line with the valve might save half the weight of your fitting?

this might let you have a few more sheets of paper on your armour? :) lol

as i say, no offence meant, i just see a lot of fittings, which are heavy.

LoL, no worries james... The reason I have it how it is, is because I have all of the fittings from another project. I want to, in time, replace all of the fittings with an AL manifold.

cool, im always worried about people being offended by my comments, so glad it was taken as meant.

what are the specs on that system? that looks like a big ram!

That is what the forums are for... Helping out and showing off. . . .

That is a Mario super awesome amazing sepcial custom. 70mmx80mm Hopefully I will be able to flip a bot 2 or 3 feet in the air :-) I hope to have it all done and working in a month-ish amount of time. I am looking foward to seeing how it works. I got a nice big Li-p for it which I that I am also looking foward to seeing how well it works.