DeltaFlightcase
| Projects | |
|---|---|
| Participants | Ultratux |
| Skills | Woodworking, measurements, painting |
| Status | Finished |
| Niche | Mechanics |
| Purpose | Use in other project |
Building a proper flightcase for a Cerberus-derived delta 3D printer. It ought to be flexible enough to house both the newer -printed- model and the original model in ways that even rough treatment will likely be survived gloriously.
Challenges:
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Find ways to keep weight limited so it can still be carried by a single person. - Determine how to best design inside of case to accommodate the different variations of the cerberus.
- Find some way to cut foam into arbitrary shapes
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Find affordable sources for support foam and 'hang en sluitwerk' plus wheels.
Due date: no later than December 19th, 2014
Challenges met:
- Cheap non-birch 9 mm plywood; good compromise between price, sturdyness and weight.
- Found wheels and butterfly-lock-thingies in my attic.
- Ordered pre-cut 'hard foam' at some shop, so possibly avoided cutting it myself.
- Protection will basically be just a tight fit inside between 20mm hard foam plates
Progress:
- All materials ordered and received, just need to move foam plates to TI by bike.
- Bottom half of case made, glued. Next up is painting. Only after painting can wheels etc be mounted.
- Top half is under way. It bends a bit too much, so it may need slight redoing or adjustment.
- Bought/ordered a pneumatic rivet gun; mounting 80x 5mm rivets with the cheapest possible Gamma manual rivet gun is quite hard and painful work...
Lessons learned:
- If you need to mount metal corners and wheels, NEVER mount the wheels first; they'll end up in the spot where the corners needed to go!
- Never glue the hard foam on the inside before drilling all the necessary holes for the rivets; the drill might catch on the foam, even if unlikely.
- A pneumatic rivet gun is AWESOME! If not for the ease of work, then just for the sound it makes while using it <3
- Hard foam is completely different from soft foam; the former is actually VERY easy to cut with a sharp knife. Contrary to popular belief.
