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Grasshopper:


--- Quote from: RandyT on October 17, 2014, 01:28:05 pm ---The Suzo 500 stick on which it is based, has gone extinct, so once these are gone, there will be no more.

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Really? I'm quite shocked about that. I had no idea.

Have you still got any Suzo 500s left with red or blue handles? I don't see any on your site.

Le Chuck:


--- Quote from: RandyT on October 17, 2014, 12:50:46 pm ---
Definitely an interesting idea.  My only concern with something like this would be that the forces exerted against the iris aperture by the stick, would be transferred in the opposite direction of the forces used to close it.  In other words, a means to lock it in place once closed would probably be a necessity.  This is something not usually of much concern with the rotating square approach, where a little friction is usually sufficient to keep things in the proper orientation.

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Well the iris is just illustrative for the idea in this case.  It would be much easier to do a two part insert where the square bits got pushed together and was flush with the circle restrictor.  That would take locking mech and could likely be one on the cheap but if the square bits slid together then sat down in the circular restrictor that would work great.  The mechanism would have to move a 1/4" or so along the Z axis during rotation.  Again, probably stupid expensive to produce tho.   

mgb:


--- Quote from: Le Chuck on October 18, 2014, 11:54:49 am ---
--- Quote from: RandyT on October 17, 2014, 12:50:46 pm ---
Definitely an interesting idea.  My only concern with something like this would be that the forces exerted against the iris aperture by the stick, would be transferred in the opposite direction of the forces used to close it.  In other words, a means to lock it in place once closed would probably be a necessity.  This is something not usually of much concern with the rotating square approach, where a little friction is usually sufficient to keep things in the proper orientation.

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Well the iris is just illustrative for the idea in this case.  It would be much easier to do a two part insert where the square bits got pushed together and was flush with the circle restrictor.  That would take locking mech and could likely be one on the cheap but if the square bits slid together then sat down in the circular restrictor that would work great.  The mechanism would have to move a 1/4" or so along the Z axis during rotation.  Again, probably stupid expensive to produce tho.

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That's basically one of the ideas I've had in my head.
I understand it would be too expensive for manufacturing but that's why I would
Think it'd be a home brew, one off type of deal

keilmillerjr:

Restrictors sliding up/down the shaft to contact the "actuator" portion would work. Similar fashion to transmissions. Would I spend the bucks to do this? Nah.

I started with the magsticks for my project. Not for me. Got JLF's and making an excellent 8-way machine.

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