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Atari Yolk 14 tooth gear Repoductions
Generic Eric:
--- Quote from: Slippyblade on January 26, 2014, 02:02:30 pm ---I'd give a toe off my left foot for one of those "glorified glue guns". My brother-in-law works in a R&D fab and he routinely prints replacement plastic parts for his project car. SOO jealous.
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Win-Win. Then you could print a prosthetic toe.
SammyWI:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on January 26, 2014, 12:35:44 pm ---it appears these will press onto the original collar. He did some preliminary testing with pressing them on to the original collar and he basically had to break them to get them back off again. Shouldn't be an issue at all with them falling off or anything.
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That makes sense. It's only transmitting position to a pot so torque requirements are low.
sharpfork:
2 things:
1. I'm double sad that I couldn't make it to your place with craftymech to check this all out in person 34k.
2. I think Randy summed it up perfectly here:
--- Quote from: RandyT on January 19, 2014, 12:59:50 am ---anyone who thinks I spent 10 hours of what little free time I have on this because I think "I'mma gunna gets rich offa suckerz by selling "junk" gears for $5 each (or two for $8) to the tiny group of folks who need them"" should probably seek some professional assistance. I did it because there seemed to be some interest in me giving it a go, and cultivating a reliable source.
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34k:
--- Quote from: sharpfork on January 27, 2014, 12:29:25 am ---I'm double sad that I couldn't make it to your place with craftymech to check this all out in person 34k.
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Ha! It was a good time, and near perfect weather. We'll do it again soon. Crafty still needs to make some adjustments and give it another round on the monitors.
As far as an update, many games were played on the fully printed version and I would say it feels pretty much identical to the gear only version. I only had one concern with the fully printed one. The set screw was causing some stress on the gear, turning the blue material white. I haven't pulled it yet since I was hoping to get some more games in but then the weather went all snowy on us again. They are talking mid fifties on Wednesday so I'll get a few games in and then pull the gear and do another round of pictures.
Note that when I pulled the half printed one and cleaned all of the lube off, there were no signs of stress anywhere on it.
I know you've done the white ones now, but I actually really like the blue.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: 34k on January 27, 2014, 08:36:12 pm ---As far as an update, many games were played on the fully printed version and I would say it feels pretty much identical to the gear only version. I only had one concern with the fully printed one. The set screw was causing some stress on the gear, turning the blue material white.
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Not surprising. The screw was probably tightened a bit too much. It really only needs to be just snug for it to work properly, thanks to the "D" shaft of the pot.
--- Quote ---I know you've done the white ones now, but I actually really like the blue.
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I did the last test in white, based on a request above. I'll probably offer them in either color, as I have quite a bit of the blue filament on hand.