This one is a little bigger than the Stuart Hammer, and will be an interesting challenge. I hope to put the build online. I am also trying to model it in Fusion 360 so it would be pretty easy to make casting patterns from that.
I Picked up a casting set and plans for Paul Briesch's Steam hammer at Cabin Fever. However when I got them home, I looked at the plans and sections of the plans are unreadable. Especially s17 s18 and s19. Any advice where I could get these would be helpful.
My results from Shars are fairly good. I am just a hack and probably wouldn't know the difference unless the tools are way off, so take this review with a grain of salt. I live less than 10 miles from the Chicago suburb warehouse. So when I buy things there I do onsite pickup. One of the...
I noticed you are using a tablet to show the cad work. did you draw on the tablet, or is that just a viewer. If you did draw, what software are you using, and what kind of tablet?
Its October and so Once again for those in the Chicago Area. CMEA is doing a free model Engineering Show. Come meet the members and see the new projects.
The show is in La Grange, IL and open from 9am to 3pm on October 3, 2015.
Located at the Emmanual Episcopal Church, 203 N...
As for the Alum, I have used it to dissolve an 8-32 tap in two hours. So depending on the size of the steel balls it would take a while to dissolve. Also, keep the alum/water mixture near boiling and as saturated as possible. One problem is that the Alum/Water leaves a film on the Aluminum...
You would attach the power to the red/black of the ESC. The data for the speed control comes through the parallel to the 3 wire connection. The ESC then takes the data from the Parallel port to regulate how much of the high power goes to the motor and sends through the 3 wires to control motor...